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[Bryan O'Neil Hughes] [Senior Product Manager, Photoshop] Leading up to Photoshop CS6,
we did a tremendous amount of research.
We spent a lot of time in the field, and we noticed
that many people use the auto functionality in Photoshop quite a bit,
auto levels and auto curves.
Essentially what they did is they picked the black, gray and white point,
and we knew we could do better than that.
Here I have a dark image, and I liked that mood
when I was playing around with this in Lightroom,
but I want a brighter image.
The first way to do auto, which is brightness contrast,
is a brand-new auto button in here.
Let's give that a try,
and we'll notice we get a pretty dramatically different result.
We get brightness to 84 and contrast to negative 48.
This is actually an adaptive result.
You could think of it as content aware auto.
There it is in brightness contrast.
Let's look at it in Levels so that you can see one of the huge differences
in how this used to work.
There's the new setting, the adaptive,
and here's the old way of doing things, and you notice
not only do we pick up a little bit of a color cast,
but we have gaps in our histogram,
and each one of those gaps represents data that's missing from the image.
The last way to do it is my favorite.
It's in Curves, and just by default if I click Auto
not only do I get that nice pleasing result,
but I also have in this particular case 4 editable points on my curve.
If those highlights are a little too bright,
I can grab one of those and pull it down.
The same with any different area of the curve.
I can interact with that. It gives me a great starting point.
There you see brightness contrast, levels and curves,
all with new adaptive auto functionality.
[Adobe]
