Okay, so here’s my first ever video tutorial. No laughing. There’s quite a few Photoshop tutorials for color correction using curves or levels. Some just set white and black points, some base it on CMYK values… mine does both.
Color correction, like many other things in Photoshop, is something that can be accomplished in different ways. This way isn’t the only way, it isn’t necessarily the best way, and it’s only ever just a way to get you close. If you’re working on your own images, then you’ll have to rely on your memory to know what the colors should look like or how you’d like them to look.
The one thing you should definitely have, though, before you start trying to correct the color of your images is a properly calibrated monitor. Hope this helps you. And if it does, then be sure to Digg it!!
NOTE: I make reference in the video to the K in CMYK standing for Kelvin. This is incorrect. K actually stands for the color black.
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K stand for black. B and BL also are shared by BLue.