Take control of contrast in Photoshop
There’s more to contrast than black and white points – increasing or decreasing contrast can be a powerful creative tool
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James Abbott
An advanced Photoshop user who has created hundreds of tutorials, James Abbott is also the author of
The Digital Darkroom: The Definitive Guide to Photo Editing,
Contrast, or even a lack of it, can be a much more important element in the overall look and C feel of a photo, whether you’re working in colour or black and white. At its most basic level, an increase in contrast is simply increasing the black and white points – the level where pure black and pure white are displayed. Of course, in many situations, you wouldn’t want to push these points that far because you’d lose detail, but it’s the easiest explanation of what’s happening.