Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Five:
We're going for a high-contrast black and
white, so we can add more contrast by
clicking-and-dragging the Clarity slider
quite a bit to the right (here I dragged to
+75, the top end of the amount of Clarity
I'd apply to about any photo), which gives
the midtones much more contrast and
makes the overall photo have more punch.
Step Six:
Now we're going to pump up the overall
contrast, but we're not going to use the
Contrast slider (it's just too broad, so
I generally don't use it). Instead, scroll
down to the Tone Curve panel and, from
the Point Curve pop-up menu at the
bottom, choose
Medium Contrast
to
make your highlights brighter and your
shadows deeper (as shown here). I'm only
choosing Medium Contrast because this
is a JPEG image, and some contrast was
already applied when the JPEG was origi-
nally made from the RAW photo. If this
was a RAW photo, I would have chosen
Strong Contrast instead, because the
default amount of contrast for RAW
images is already Medium.
