Improving Your Images Step 2: Tweaking the "auto" setting

So far we have set the white colour balance (WB) to render the image close to what it looked like.

Now is the time to see what Photoshop will do if we press "auto".

By pressing "Auto" the software has taken control of the image and done things like
increased the exposure; reduced contrast, and brought out the shadows. Since this is an image taken at sunrise, I don't like the bright sky so I turned the exposure back to 0 (ie original exposure), and increased the colour in the shadows and contrast and clarity. Simply experiment with each in turn, giving slight tweaks as you go. Notice how we have kept the pinks in the clouds - this is due to us not increasing the exposure in the image. 

In the next blog we will look at removing the noise in the image.



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