Comments on: A Photoshop Tutorial – Levels

By: cfimages

cfimages — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:04:16 +0000

Glad it was useful. Thank you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:11:55 +0000

Thank you for such a wonderful tutorial. Keep up the good work!

By: cfimages

cfimages — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:04:16 +0000

Glad it was useful. Thank you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:11:55 +0000

Thank you for such a wonderful tutorial. Keep up the good work!

By: cfimages

cfimages — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:49:27 +0000

Yeah, it's permanent if you save as a jpeg (and each time you open and resave a jpeg you slightly corrupt the file), but you can save as a TIFF or PSD and keep the layers intact. It creates a bigger file size, but with external 1TB harddrives around NT$3600 (US$110) bigger file size is not something that I worry about. Thanks for the comment.

By: cfimages

cfimages — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:46:12 +0000

I get it. Sorry for the confusion – I thought you meant using Auto-Levels separately. Since Lightroom was released, I find that I only really use PS for some portrait retouching and noise plug-ins. I don't think I've ever thought to try Auto Levels on a layer.

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:01:21 +0000

Wow! I'm scouring this article… the layer structure… it's permanent if I make a jpeg… I think.

By: Darren Melrose

Darren Melrose — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:57:30 +0000

Maybe I am confused, or I wasn't quite clear. I meant using auto levels on the layer; it would be no more destructive than whatever choices the user made, since it is on a layer. I rarely use auto levels as a ending point, but it is often something I try as a starting point. The reason I mentioned the auto setting, is that is when I seem to see the most obvious colour shifts, which is what the Luminance blending mode really helps combat.

By: cfimages

cfimages — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:52:16 +0000

Thanks. The odd thing is that since Lightroom was released I find I rarely use Photoshop.

By: Expatriate Games

Expatriate Games — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:02:04 +0000

Dude, that's cool of you to take make the time to put this together. I absolutely agree with the non-destructive approach. I learned the hard way and only wish I had read this two years ago!