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Balancing Color and Brightness using the Color Wheels
It is an over exposed shot in which the dark trees on the mountains appear muddy
andthe snow is super bright.
To improve tonal range, you can use the primary correction tools you used in the
previous lesson.
2 Drag the Lift master wheel to the left until the Y luminance value is near -0.20.
As you drag the Lift master wheel to the left, the darkest areas in the image
becomedarker.
3 To decrease the highlights, drag the Gain master wheel until the Y luminance
valuedisplays 0.60.
4 To brighten up the image, drag the gamma master wheel to the right, until it is
around0.15.