Perhaps the most useful tool in Photoshop when enhancing or editing scanned photo’s is the Levels tool. You can quickly enhance a photo, adding depth and richness. This works especially well with old images.
Thanks for the vide, but I have a problem and I couldn’t find the way to work it out. I have an old image and there’s a blured shadow in the corner, which covers an important part. By clicking on auto contrast, then on auto levels and by using the marquee tool I did a nice job, But I have no idea what to use to clear up this shadow so that it has the same bright as the one in the image. Does anybody know???
Good tip, thank you. [Although it's Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight] — unless that’s been changed since CS2.
I still prefer the simplicity of Levels, but another method [if you prefer the "automatic"] is IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > AUTO LEVELS. (You can also do CTRL+SHIFT+L)
Alternatively, folks, you could also use Filter > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight and mess with the settings. Usually you get a pretty good effect automatically.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Thanks!
February 5th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Thanks for the vide, but I have a problem and I couldn’t find the way to work it out. I have an old image and there’s a blured shadow in the corner, which covers an important part. By clicking on auto contrast, then on auto levels and by using the marquee tool I did a nice job, But I have no idea what to use to clear up this shadow so that it has the same bright as the one in the image. Does anybody know???
February 5th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Thank you!
February 5th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Good tip, thank you. [Although it's Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight] — unless that’s been changed since CS2.
I still prefer the simplicity of Levels, but another method [if you prefer the "automatic"] is IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > AUTO LEVELS. (You can also do CTRL+SHIFT+L)
Anyway, thanks for the reminder Chris!
February 5th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Alternatively, folks, you could also use Filter > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight and mess with the settings. Usually you get a pretty good effect automatically.