This third session on Adjustments covers Levels! It’s one a lot of you have been waiting for. We start with a brief explanation of reading a histogram (which you have to understand in order to use Levels effectively), then go through all the Levels options, including Luminance and RGB adjustments, the auto settings, and look at how you can fix many badly colored images (due to impossible white balance or bizarre lighting situations) just using Levels. We even get into the advanced preferences on adjusting the Black and White Clipping points! As always, we wrap with an informative Q&A with some great questions from the live audience.

We also, for the first time, included live video in the session!

The full chapter list includes:

• Understanding Histograms
• Luminance Control; Black & White Point
• Highlight Hot & Cold Areas
• Gamma
• Levels vs Exposure
• Auto Luminance
• Quarter Tones
• RGB Control
• Auto RGB
• 4-up; Auto Levels & Curves, RGB & Luminance Script
• Basic White Demo (Video Color Grading Technique)
• Brushing Levels
• Multiple Instances
• Live Q&A
• Q&A: Would you start with the Levels brick before the Exposure brick?
• Q&A: Auto Levels in Photoshop is different than Auto Levels in Aperture… why?
• Preferences: Black & White Clipping Settings
• Q&A: How different is White Balance from Levels/RGB?
• Q&A: Why would you want the auto adjust to clip a small percentage?
• Q&A: How do you add another Levels brick?
• Explaining multiple instances in Texture Presets
• Google+ Contest