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  • čas přidán 26. 08. 2016
  • Learn how to use photoshop levels to correctly expose you image in photoshop. Levels in photoshop can also be used creatively and in their Photoshop tutorial for levels Ed Gregory will show you how
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    This is a photoshop tutorial for beginners to show you all you need to know about photoshop levels. Levels in Photoshop CC are extremely powerful as it allows you to set both the white and black point on a histogram. This kind of Limits the image levels giving you huge creative opportunities. Learn photoshop with photos in color easily with this Levels in photoshop CC tutorial. Remember you can download this project file and the entire ultimate photoshop training course for gingers on the Photos iIn Color website.
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Komentáře • 100

  • @trevorcrook5649
    @trevorcrook5649 Před 7 lety +2

    Thank you, your tutorial has made using levels very clear,

  • @Yelaiah09
    @Yelaiah09 Před 5 lety

    You're amazing and I thank you for all your tutorials!!

  • @abbyscott2084
    @abbyscott2084 Před 5 lety

    this is so helpful, clear, and detailed thank you so much!!

  • @karlscad1
    @karlscad1 Před 7 lety +11

    What an awesome explanation of the levels with your "test photo"

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety +1

      super happy you enjoyed this photoshop levels tutorial. SOmethimnes we need a few extra tools to explain things.

  • @nisalasaheed6292
    @nisalasaheed6292 Před 7 lety

    Thank you so much!!! Your explanations are extremely comprehensive!!! Amazing teacher!!!

  • @Kprawl291986
    @Kprawl291986 Před 8 lety

    Amazing work Ed!

  • @Bakkm
    @Bakkm Před 8 lety

    Ed thanks for a great tutorial as allways. I just bought myself the imac 16 gb with the fusion drive, thanks for the help by selection o a systeem.

  • @johnx9318
    @johnx9318 Před 8 lety

    Hi Ed. This is one of the most concise tutorials ever. Your presentation is fantastic and the graphic was perfect. And no piggin' diddle-dee either! Thanks.

  • @jenifermckim3449
    @jenifermckim3449 Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks for your help!

  • @jay1232000
    @jay1232000 Před 6 lety

    The best explanation ever about levels!

  • @Douala999
    @Douala999 Před 5 lety

    Great job. Thank you really helped me understand levels

  • @melissahall7009
    @melissahall7009 Před 5 lety

    Wonderful explanation!! Thanks!!

  • @1990spak
    @1990spak Před 7 lety

    Real helpful! Big ups, bro!

  •  Před 8 lety +1

    Thank you for these awesome videos Ed, I learned a lot just by watching them. The sheet you use at 6:00 is awesome. Any chance to download it so I can use it in PS the same way you demonstrated? Thanks again and keep them coming!

  • @takisolamaola
    @takisolamaola Před 5 lety

    very helpfull, thanks man!!

  • @praneepen
    @praneepen Před 6 lety

    Best tutorial on levels so far

  • @Ashinperth
    @Ashinperth Před 7 lety

    Loving the tutorials you are improving my photo editing so much. Many thanks. For this one, how did you take the photo so well with the bright background.

  • @falaise17
    @falaise17 Před 5 lety +1

    Why I did not watch this two years ago? ! This is awesome!

  • @kalpitkatpara4562
    @kalpitkatpara4562 Před 6 lety

    Great explanation. You are awesome. Thank you so much for your videos they are extremely helpful

  • @magdalenasiemek9869
    @magdalenasiemek9869 Před 7 lety

    wooow I've watched at least 10 of your tutorials till now... they are so clear and easy to follow. thanks

  • @SovonHalder
    @SovonHalder Před 6 lety

    Fantastic tutorial.

  • @changethementality
    @changethementality Před 3 lety

    Great video! Thank you!

  • @ranaassaf4209
    @ranaassaf4209 Před 7 lety

    this is great thank you so much 👍👍👍

  • @augustocorreia9470
    @augustocorreia9470 Před 8 lety

    Hi from Brazil ! Thank u so much for another nice video... Great work Ed! :)

  • @mustafaaltay1747
    @mustafaaltay1747 Před 6 lety

    Thank you!

  • @mariannakokoreva517
    @mariannakokoreva517 Před 6 lety

    Thanks a lot, useful info, though I was looking more for 'overerexposure treatment'. Though I didn't know most of the things you were talking about.

  • @user-vu9wb2hw7n
    @user-vu9wb2hw7n Před 6 lety

    Thank you so much

  • @JohnBlute
    @JohnBlute Před 8 lety

    Thanks so much for your videos, they are very helpful.

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 8 lety

      +John Amsterdam my pleasure. I am happy you enjoyed my photoshop levels tutorial.

  • @coralcohen1680
    @coralcohen1680 Před 6 lety

    WOW! ive seriously been trying to understand the levels adjustments and the histogram for soooo long. I've seen so many tutorials, and this is by farrr the best! Thank you so much. The picture with the percentages is so good for the explanation. I appriacte this so much! Thank you!

    • @coralcohen1680
      @coralcohen1680 Před 6 lety +1

      Is there any way I can get this image of the colors of the levels?

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 6 lety

      Super happy you enjoyed this photoshop levels tutorial. You can get all of the images, color cards and my entire photoshop training could here - www.photosincolor.com/project/ultimate-photoshop-training-course/

  • @irenemackenzie3232
    @irenemackenzie3232 Před 3 lety

    Great video!

  • @benrose47
    @benrose47 Před 2 lety

    Really great explanation, thanks!

  • @himalay7
    @himalay7 Před 7 lety

    Subscribed!!!

  • @mightyenid
    @mightyenid Před 8 lety

    ed, whats the cursor circle thing called please? its driving me mad! great video :) as ever!

  • @exploring_life9714
    @exploring_life9714 Před 4 lety

    Wow... You nailed it 👏

  • @markharris5771
    @markharris5771 Před 8 lety

    Hi Ed, as usual a brilliant tutorial. Which do you prefer for putting hints of colour in the shadows and highlights, split toning in Lightroom or Levels in Photoshop? I can see in some cases levels are much more powerful than split toning but for shadows and highlights I think Lightroom would be the preferred option?

  • @ranimaharaj-sharma4332

    Great video...Very clear explanation. Thanks a lot..Great job...

  • @gennadyfedorow5392
    @gennadyfedorow5392 Před 5 lety

    where i can get the color palette, that You used in your superb video?

  • @geetanshmehta9710
    @geetanshmehta9710 Před 5 lety

    Really Asm explanation

  • @ch.ishraqahmad3062
    @ch.ishraqahmad3062 Před 3 lety

    awesome explanation..

  • @BishwendraSingh
    @BishwendraSingh Před 8 lety

    Although the image was not a very good example but you did explained the adjustment levels perfectly. I like your videos Ed!

  • @phcarretta
    @phcarretta Před 8 lety

    super tnx!

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 8 lety

      +Andrea Carretta fantastic. Happy you enjoyed learning about the photoshop levels adjustment layer.

  • @PseudoWounds
    @PseudoWounds Před rokem

    thanks

  • @chitototoy176
    @chitototoy176 Před 3 lety

    love your instruction. Good energy. Precise and acurate. AUTO SUBSCRIBE!!

  • @cathiedavis8439
    @cathiedavis8439 Před 7 lety +2

    How do you remove a shadow completely? I thought that was going to be part of exposure and contrast. Where would I find that video? Thank You for sharing all this information.

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety +1

      ro remove a shadow completely you are going to ave to do a lot of cloning in photoshop. Photoshop levels effects what is there in the image but what you wanting to o is completely remove a shadow, this is something very different. On a side, why would you want to remove a shadow. by removing something created by light you will probably leave the image looking fake.

    • @cathiedavis8439
      @cathiedavis8439 Před 7 lety

      Thank you so much, the last thing I want is for the end result to look fake. I guess the real answer is I will need to take another picture with better lighting. I really enjoy your lessons, you make it very easy to understand verses other videos I've found.

  • @Like571
    @Like571 Před 4 lety

    Great video! Btw where can I get the black and white test photo? I couldn't find it on your website. Thanks!

  • @DavidTothill
    @DavidTothill Před 8 lety +8

    You said "essentially" 47 times in this video and I lost the will to live at about eleven minutes in. That said, I love your videos and am essentially full of respect for your impressive PS & LR knowledge.

  • @TheGamingChad.
    @TheGamingChad. Před 3 lety

    so, it basically replaces color balance as well?

  • @chrismarehonor2593
    @chrismarehonor2593 Před 7 lety +1

    Very useful and informative video, subscribing:)

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety

      +chrismare Honor that's wonderful. Super happy you are enjoying my tutorials.

    • @nikunjmajithia4284
      @nikunjmajithia4284 Před 7 lety

      +Photos in Color Hi Ed, thank alot s for the video you are really helpful and very knowledgeable so my understanding is 0 means purely black and 255 means purely whites and 1.00 is midway so its grey area so if we move 1.00 midtone to left we are exposing the highlights more so it becomes lighter and if we move it to the right we are exposing the shadows more so it becomes more black correct me if I'm wrong. But can you please elaborate on why its 0 to 255 like i know 255 means highlights so its a high number but why 255 like the rgb color spectrum contains so many colors so why is it limited to 255. Let me know when you can thanks.

  • @nikunjmajithia4284
    @nikunjmajithia4284 Před 7 lety +1

    Cool thanks for that, so its to save memory and i remember in school my teacher talking about 256 so 0 which is the pure black one is added on to make it 256 so instead of 256 its 255. and both the 0-255 all together makes up 8bit data so basically the colors are crunched into that

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety

      its not really about crunching them or saving space, its just a type of color space. something color os captured in 8 bit other times its 14 or 16bit. we can see what more color with our eyes this is just a way for our computers to read these colors. But yes 8bit color depth is less that 16 bit.

  • @homeschoolthinktank
    @homeschoolthinktank Před 4 lety

    Your tutorial is very helpful. Thanks so much! p.s. I'm the founder of HomeSchool ThinkTank...clearly my designer knows what she's doing, but I need basic editing skills from time to time too!

  • @lifevideo8365
    @lifevideo8365 Před 4 lety

    @ Photos In Color Great video! Please help me. Adjust 2 point in Output level to decide black point and white point (dark to white) in Input level? Is it right?

  • @nikunjmajithia4284
    @nikunjmajithia4284 Před 7 lety +2

    No worries thanks for the help my teacher said its to do with Binary so 24 bit is 256 colors something along the lines of that but thanks

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety +1

      my pleasure. It is exactly to do with that. less to do with colors and more to do with how a computer renders and sees colors. Happy I have been able to help and you have enjoyed learning photoshop.

  • @nikunjmajithia4284
    @nikunjmajithia4284 Před 7 lety +1

    Hi Ed, thank alot s for the video you are really helpful and very knowledgeable so my understanding is 0 means purely black and 255 means purely whites and 1.00 is midway so its grey area so if we move 1.00 midtone to left we are exposing the highlights more so it becomes lighter and if we move it to the right we are exposing the shadows more so it becomes more black so it can do the changes for us in itself without us needing to move the slider on the far left and slider on the far right But can you please elaborate on why its 0 to 255 like i know 255 means highlights so its a high number but why 255 like the rgb color spectrum contains so many colors so why is it limited to 255. Let me know when you can thanks.

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety +1

      well that is a very technical question but here is a simple overview. Its to do with the way data is stored. a color has to be split into to save on space. RGB 0-255 takes up exactly 1 bite of data which is equal to 8bits. which is why most color is converted to 8bit data when saved to jpeg. I hope this makes sense.

    • @nikunjmajithia4284
      @nikunjmajithia4284 Před 7 lety

      +Photos In Color Cool thanks for that, so its to save memory and i remember in school my teacher talking about 256 so 0 which is the pure black one is added on to make it 256 so instead of 256 its 255. and both the 0-255 all together makes up 8bit data so basically the colors are crunched into that

  • @TheHottuna66
    @TheHottuna66 Před 4 lety

    how is this different from the tone curve?

  • @traderlondon
    @traderlondon Před 8 lety +1

    You need to tell people WHEN and WHY use levels, and why use levels rather than curves or any other adjustments. BTW, your black white mapping example is very good.

  • @LivingTech
    @LivingTech Před 5 lety +1

    Great video, thank you. Funny is that you lost me when you modified the image to warm it up, as I thought the colours in the original image were beautiful, especially how the blue in the shirt popped. But then, you said, "...wouldn't necessarily have done that because I loved the image as it first was...", which was instrumental in leading me to click "subscribe"! :)

  • @josephcaserto1848
    @josephcaserto1848 Před 6 lety

    Excellent work explaining levels. I would like to incorporate the test photo in my own courses. How can I request permission to use it?

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 6 lety

      Well you can write to me on the website but you would have to license the images for use. It would be a cut of each sale.

    • @josephcaserto1848
      @josephcaserto1848 Před 6 lety

      Photos In Color Great! I sent an email a couple days ago and will follow up. Happy to look into licensing it.

  • @nikunjmajithia4284
    @nikunjmajithia4284 Před 7 lety +1

    Hi sorry, so the color os itself captured the 0-255 color space and that can be done in 8 bit 14 or 16 bit, so 0-255 in 8bit 14 or 16 is how computers then read them and 0 being the black color and 255 being the lightest color that is why when the 255 side is exposed we get more highlights and the output levels changes where we get more or less red in this case o more or less blue as in the output level red start at 0 in the slider above the output level red starts at 255 but when we move the output level red can be at the shadows or vise versa red can be at the highlights and this is thanks to the computers reading for 0-255 for rgb color spectrum which can be done in 8 bit or 16 bit

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety +1

      I think we are getting wayyyyyy to deep into something that I really dont think matters much. Color lives in a 'space' and thats the important part. the greater the bit depth the greater the space. sRGB is the standard and that is produced in 255,255, 255. RGB. Outside of this I think you may need to speed to a professor or something. I really have git my knowledge limit and I dont want to just make stuff up. Love this in depth though process though.

  • @arayadigitalprinting3209

    Dear Sir, first of all thank you the tutorial regarding adjustment level. I have a question on this matter. How to adjust Level in generally like decrease -10% and increase +10% (for example like your image shown in CZcams. Means increment/decrement adjustment at all / generally. Appreciated for explanation and feedback . Best Regards Stefanus Warokka

  • @rajshreechoudhari4530
    @rajshreechoudhari4530 Před 7 lety +1

    where can i get black and white colour palette

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety

      That is something that is available in my Ultimate photoshop training course that is available on photosincolor.com. Happy you are enjoying learning from my photoshop tutorials for beginners.

  • @kyledesm4269
    @kyledesm4269 Před 8 lety

    hey sorry for sounding dumb but I'm trying to get on to photography what's the name of this software for editing called

  • @JakeWalksAmerica
    @JakeWalksAmerica Před 3 lety

    I've realized that after I use the Levels Adjustment, my pictures get rejected from stock sites, such as Adobe and Shutterstock. Any ideas why? The problem always comes back as "posterization problems."

  • @usmanali-qg1st
    @usmanali-qg1st Před 3 lety

    how can we get this pic

  • @Mikemenn
    @Mikemenn Před rokem

    Ack! Your course files link returns a 404! Are they still available somewhere?

  • @tonton1654e
    @tonton1654e Před 8 lety

    Nice to be first!

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 8 lety

      Yay, congrats. Hope you liked learning about photoshop Levels.

    • @tonton1654e
      @tonton1654e Před 8 lety +1

      +Photos In Color I do! It was a very informative video. Thank you! 😊

  • @yashwanthban748
    @yashwanthban748 Před 8 lety

    Can u give me the dancer channel that is rosy white channel pls

  • @parthshah438
    @parthshah438 Před 7 lety +1

    please provide sample photo

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 7 lety

      All of the sources files for my photoshop tutorials for beginners are available here www.photosincolor.com/project/ultimate-photoshop-training-course/

  • @mehrshadraisdana267
    @mehrshadraisdana267 Před 3 lety

    you are great ha ha ha

  • @mehrshadraisdana267
    @mehrshadraisdana267 Před 3 lety

    send them

  • @umarhayatashfaq
    @umarhayatashfaq Před 4 lety

    Its just mother fucking awesome

  • @eugenegrewing2587
    @eugenegrewing2587 Před 8 lety

    i watch these just for the theme tunes.

  • @nokompromis2297
    @nokompromis2297 Před 4 lety

    As i was watching your intro, i didn't really gave a f@ck about it's title, but your dancing was quite interresting though.

  • @SwanSycorax
    @SwanSycorax Před 4 lety

    Thank you. Once you got into the tutorial it was great, very well explained, however, I must say, I almost switched off in the first 20 - 30 seconds as I HATE over enthusiastic introductions that so many CZcamsrs seem to find essential. I know many Americans do this and as soon as they do, I'm off to find someone else. You are have clearly got a great understanding of your subject and the ability to put it across well, but PLEASE cut out the rather peurile introductions and hyper-enthusiasm, they just detract from what you have to offer.

  • @TCConner
    @TCConner Před 8 lety +3

    You kinda lost me on this Ed. You even stated that you liked the image the way it started, and I did too. Maybe you could've used an image that actually needed levels adjustments.

    • @clearlyed
      @clearlyed  Před 8 lety +4

      +TC Conner I can definitely see your point here. I will try to do this in the future. This was purely for demonstration purposes for the photoshop levels adjustment layer. I will try to use more appropriate photos in the future.

    • @scottabergermd
      @scottabergermd Před 8 lety +1

      I absolutely agree with the comment here. You had me, then you lost me. You started out really good, then started to go into the nebulous, ridiculous aspects of the levels sliders...please keep it simple and direct.

  • @animatedreality9135
    @animatedreality9135 Před 2 lety

    Cringe

  • @omarhaider3035
    @omarhaider3035 Před 4 lety

    Thank you so much