{"id":114,"date":"2016-01-27T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:00:05","slug":"levels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/levels\/","title":{"rendered":"2.3 Basic level adjustments (Berlin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To level this photo’s exposure for web display, <\/strong>download it and open in Photoshop or Gimp.\u00a0 (To\u00a0 download a photo directly from a browser window, right click on your mouse and pull down on the menu to “save image as.”\u00a0 You can save it to a special folder or the desktop, wherever it’s easiest to find.)<\/p>\n

Then open in Photoshop or Gimp and:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Adjust Image Levels<\/strong> (brightness, contrast, color levels)<\/span><\/p>\n

To adjust the brightness and contrast levels of \u00a0your photos, go to the upper pull-down menu in Photoshop and open the “Image\/Image Adjust \/<\/strong> Levels” dialogue box. You’ll see the histogram representing the brightness and contrast. Adjust the small triangles under the photo until they best match the photo information.<\/p>\n

In Gimp, open the level dialogue box<\/strong>\u00a0 under “Colors” in the top menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Rotate:<\/strong>\u00a0 Also, in handling\u00a0 2.3<\/strong>,\u00a0 you’ll want to rotate the photo so the water is level on the horizon. The rotate tool is under the main menu, Image \/ Image Rotation \/ Arbitrary.\u00a0 Then use the crop tool to cut off the un-filled in edges of the image.<\/p>\n

Optimize:<\/strong> At this point you’ll want to optimize Ex 3 Berlin. So:<\/p>\n

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  1. Check the levels. \"\"<\/a>\n
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    1. \u00a0In Photoshop, open ithe top pull-down menu to Image \/ Image size<\/li>\n
    2. The dialogue box will tell you the Width, Height,\u00a0 Resolution and Image Size.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Reduce the image size for web display:\n
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      1. Change the\u00a0resolution<\/strong>\u00a0to 72 pixels per inch. (Be sure to check the resample box).<\/li>\n
      2. Change the\u00a0width and height.<\/strong> \u00a0For most photos this should be around 5 by 7 inches (or 500 pixels by 360 pixels).\u00a0 Be careful: Don’t confuse pixels and inches. A 500 inch wide photo will be huge)<\/li>\n
      3. For web, total file size should now be around 200 to 700 K max for web display<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      4. \u201cSave As\u201d a .jpg for web display, and apply compression by adjusting image quality. \u00a0Lower quality means higher compression and smaller file size.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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        2.3 \u2014 Level adjust\u00a0 <\/span>Butte \/ \u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/photoshop\/how-to\/photoshop-improve-tones-levels.html<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        To level this photo’s exposure for web display, download it and open in Photoshop or Gimp.\u00a0 (To\u00a0 download a photo directly from a browser window, right click on your mouse and pull down on the menu to “save image as.”\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}