Summary: Adjusting brightness and contrast in Adobe Photoshop is an important part of the image editing process, get a tutorial in this free video.
Daniel Kallenberger is a teacher at a technical college., teaching animation and visual arts, including Photoshop. He also worked for a major local affiliate for 14 years. He currently...read more
" My name is Dan Kallenberger. I am an instructor at a technical college teaching Visual Communications and Photoshop as well as other Adobe products. I am going to be showing you Photoshop CS2 today. Right now, we’ll deal with brightness contrast. It’s something that we do with photographs so that they don’t seem as flat, which you’ll find as a lot of times when you take an image with your digital camera of your kids or your pets. What you’ll find is that the image looks flat. What we can do is we can go into the image adjust menu. We can go down to brightness contrast and that brings up a dialog box where we can actually adjust contrast. I usually up the contrast first and then I take the brightness down. This image is okay for this another; image would be better. Brightness contrast; we just hit ok and it applies it. I’m going to also apply to this image under image adjust, brightness contrast. Again, you can make specialty photographs, you can make and bring out the flowers only if you raise contrast real high and bring brightness down to get rid of the green. You can also wash it out. If you need to make a background for text to go over you can also change the contrast to be real light as well, so that is a difference between brightness contrast."
eHow Article: Adjusting Brightness & Contrast in Photoshop