I forgot to add that a Levels command is also available in PW Pro under
Transformation -> Gray -> Levels and Color
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Under PSE it's found under Enhance -> Adjust Lighting -> Levels
> Under PS it's found under Image -> Adjustments -> Levels (the very first
> entry) Levels is likely the first entry in Adjustments since it's
> probably the first thing that should be adjusted on any image.
>
> See the PS/PSE help files for an explanation of usage.
>
> While it's not quite the same, FastStone has an Enhance Color menu entry
> which allows changing gamma, saturation and brightness plus others.
> Fiddling with those will effect the image similarly to Levels. What's
> missing it the ability to set black and white points (the extremes of
> the histogram) One can do this in a roundabout way in ACR by using a
> combination of exposure, recovery, fill light, blacks, brightness and
> contrast. (those sliders that are right up front just as levels is
> right up front)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> Brian Swale wrote:
>> Chuck wrote
>>
>>> They respond well to a
>>>> simple adjustment of the black point in levels.
>>
>> What program has the controls you refer to, Chuck?
>>
>> It's morning here, and soon I'm going out for much of the day. Maybe
>> tonight I will upload some of the worst of the uncorrected images, so
>> you can see what I started with.
>> Remember, I was walking around nearly non-stop, and took at least 60
>> images in 40 minutes. A LOT of images for me. I did not stop at any
>> point and "chimp" what I had just taken, except twice to show the two
>> stall-holders the shots I had just taken of them with their permission
>> (having explained about this group, etc).
>>
>>> From my simple perspective, using FastStone, loss of some intensity of
>> black was a small price to pay for making the whole image overall,
>> more "legible".
>>
>> Brian Swale.
>
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