There's a couple of reason why we didn't. We brightened them using the Midtone slider, but we could have also tried to color correct them using the gray point eyedropper in the Levels dialog box (the eyedropper between the white and black point eyedroppers). The only thing we didn't look at in this tutorial was color correcting the midtones. To cycle between the corrected and uncorrected versions of your image to see how much of an improvement you've made, simply click on the Layer Visibility icon (also known as the "eyeball icon") to the left of the Levels adjustment layer in the Layers palette to turn the layer on and off: Once you've brightened your image with the Midtone slider (if your image needed it), click OK in the Levels dialog box to exit out of it and accept all the corrections you've made. How far you drag the midtone slider is strictly a visual call on your part and depends entirely on your image. If you do drag it too far, your image will start to look washed out. The further you drag to the left, the more you'll brighten the midtones (dragging to the right darkens the midtones), but you usually don't need to drag the slider very far in order to get good results. Keep an eye on your image as you drag the Midtone slider. Dragging to the right will darken the midtones. Double-click on the one on the left, which is the white point eyedropper:Ĭlick on the Midtone slider and drag it a little to the left to lighten the midtones in the image.
In the bottom right corner, you'll see three eyedropper icons. Either way brings up Photoshop's Levels dialog box. Go up to the Image menu at the top of the screen, choose Adjustments, and then choose Levels, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+L (Win) / Command+L (Mac). With our image open in Photoshop, let's first take a moment to set up our Levels command properly. Shortcodes, Actions and Filters Plugin: Error in shortcode ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Set Up The Levels Defaults Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial:Īnd here's how it will look after a quick overall tone and color correction with Levels:Īgain, this is the step you always want to start with when editing your images, so having said that, let's get started! In this Photoshop tutorial on photo editing, we're going to see just how easy it is. When it comes to editing images in Photoshop, the first thing we always want to do is fix any overall tonal and/or color problems in the image (commonly referred to as "global" problems) before moving on to more specific problem areas ("local" problems), and the tool of choice for the task is the same today as it's been for years - Photoshop's Levels command, which not only handles the job like a pro, it makes overall tonal and color correction incredibly simple and easy.
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