Photoshop CC: Color, Lights and Contrasts Mastery

Learn to open raw files in Photoshop via Camera Raw, Bridge, Lightroom, or Capture One, locate images, and begin editing by adjusting exposure, contrast, and highlights for ready-to-edit results.

Adjust exposure, shadows, highlights, and contrast in camera raw to restore light and mood. Set color profiles and white balance, start with auto, and refine with vibrance and saturation.

Apply camera raw edits to new images using window light, adjusting exposure, shadows, highlights, and color with profiles and white balance. Sync settings across images and plan Lightroom workflow.

Compare Lightroom classic and camera raw for raw conversion. Explore Lightroom's export workflow, and use the develop panel to adjust profiles, white balance, exposure, and ton cube.

Edit in Lightroom Classic to adjust exposure, shadows, highlights, and white balance for skin detail and atmosphere. Synchronize settings across images, compare lighting, refine temperature, magenta, and profiles for consistency.

Explore Lightroom classic processing techniques to fine-tune lights, shadows, and color with warm tones, greens, yellows, and oranges, then synchronize edits and prepare for export to Photoshop.

Export from Lightroom by exporting to a processed subfolder, choose TIFF 16-bit with the original file name, and export without layers to resume work in Photoshop.

Open a finished Camera Raw image in Photoshop at 16‑bit depth with a suitable color space (Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB), and use a smart object for non-destructive edits.

Master a Capture One workflow, from importing images and selecting folders to adjusting exposure, white balance, color grading, and lens corrections, then export processed files for Photoshop.

Use dodge and burn with curve adjustment layers and inverted masks to brighten and darken skin, preserving natural shadows and texture with soft-edged brushes and non-destructive masking.

Learn how color theory shapes harmony and contrast in photography, mastering complementary color harmony, and apply hue, luminescence, and saturation in Photoshop to make subjects stand out.

Explore Photoshop adjustment layers with selective color to control color and light. Manipulate cyan, magenta, yellow, and black sliders for reds, yellows, greens, whites, and blacks.

Explore the gradient map adjustment layer, its color and contrast effects on shadows and highlights, with presets and blending modes, plus practical tips and limitations for color grading.

The photo filter adjustment layer offers warm, cool, or custom color presets with adjustable density, shade, luminosity, and saturation for quick, simple color tweaks, but has limited color grading options.

Master the black and white adjustment layer, using presets and color sliders to control luminosity for each color. Compare hue/saturation quick conversion and understand how blending modes affect the result.

Master color balance adjustment layer to color grade by adjusting shadows, midtones, and highlights, using red, green, blue and cyan, magenta, yellow, with blending mode normal to color, preserving luminosity.

Master hue, saturation, and vibrance in Photoshop CC to selectively adjust color ranges with master or color-specific modes, eyedropper selection, and range controls, while preserving skin tones.

Explore Photoshop adjustment layers focused on light and color, including brightness, contrast, exposure, levels, curves, and luminosity blending, plus creative offsets and gamma to fine-tune contrast, saturation, and washout effects.

Master levels adjustment in Photoshop to control highlights, shadows, and midtones using the histogram, eyedroppers, and color channels, enabling precise contrast and color grading.

Explore the channel mixer adjustment layer by manipulating red, green, and blue channels to sculpt color, light, and contrast for creative grading; includes monochrome options.

Start color grading images using color balance and channel mixer, adjusting shadows and highlights for balanced reds, yellows, and blues, and explore color blending modes.

Master color grading in Photoshop CC by using the channel mixer to balance red and blue, refine the background, and adjust shadows, highlights, and skin corrections with color balance.

Learn to color grade with masks using a curve adjustment layer to separate shadows and highlights. Apply luminosity masks, then refine with apply image and hue/saturation.

Create a mask to isolate blacks and apply precise color corrections using color range and hue-saturation for localized, true-black adjustments.

Adjusts contrast and light in an image using levels, brightness/contrast, curves, and exposure; manages shadows, highlights, and saturation with blending modes to achieve a soft, dramatic look.

Create two curve adjustment layers to control highlights and shadows using luminosity masks, then refine via channels, midtones, and luminosity blending for balanced contrast.

Adjust contrast on a single curves layer to enhance shadows and highlights, paying attention to the face, hair, and overall lighting for a hard contrast.

Learn to match color and contrast across images in Photoshop by saving adjustments as a color lookup table and applying it to other images, then refine with levels or curves.