Photoshop Tutorial - Color Correction with the Eyedropper

http://www.steeletraining.com - Learn color correction with the Curves Eyedropper tool, in this Photoshop tutorial by photographer Phil Steele.

This is an excerpt from the video course "Photoshop Basics for Photographers" available at SteeleTraining.com.

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Education

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• Photoshop
• tutorial
• color
• correction
• eyedropper
• curves
• lesson
• tips
• class
• instruction

[davidg1024]

What is the difference between levels and curves?

[steeletraining]

@davidg1024 - Answering that requires more than just a few words, but I have a whole Photoshop course on my website if you'd like to see both Levels and Curves explained in detail.

[jerryhers]

Is there a way to do this in lightroom?

[steeletraining]

@jerryhers - Yes, you can do similar adjustments in Lightroom using a combination of the Temp and Tint slider and sometimes manual tweaks of specific colors in the HSL panel. There is a white balance dropper that will adjust Temp and Tint automatically based on a neutral gray point. Then you can adjust Blacks/Contrast/Exposure/Brigh­tness to get your exposure and contrast right.

[yszla1]

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[MicroWare1]

Thank you.

I had never even noticed the eye droppers in the curves panel.

This was very helpful.

[MrVegals]

How'd you change the background of photoshop? The blue image usually where the grey color is? I can not figure out how to do this. I am running Windows.

[sbai4319]

This is a good quick tecnique but I prefer to do this in Lightroom

[pagebookcreative]

thankz.... very ,very and very much....Phil Steele

[SuperAlijoker]

woaaaa, thanks for the GREAT tip

i wonder why i called myself a Photoshop pro! :]

[ajayonline]

Great tutorial, thank you very much!

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