Chapter 8: Tonal Range

Tonight we will be learning about tonal range in an image. There are tricks to keeping the blacks black and the whites white, but also subtle variations of your middle tones. When working with tonal range, a light hand and a less-is-more attitude will give you the best results. We will talk about adjusting tonal ranges for the entire image as well as adjusting each individual color channel for optimum results.

For tonight's class, I want you to download the images used in Chapter 8 of your textbook and complete the exercises in that chapter. These exercises will show you how to adjust the tonal range of your images, how to set your black and white points and how to adjust each color channel of a color image. At the end of these exercises, you should have a grayscale image and a color image to turn in. Please flatten all images save all final files as JPGs!

HOMEWORK:

• Complete the exercises in Chapter 8: Tonal Range of your textbook

• Turn in both a grayscale JPG and a color JPG of the images you work on.

• These are due by the BEGINNING of class on Wednesday!