Understanding Histograms by Example

Now let’s take a look at the histogram for the same scene when the image has been overexposed.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Understanding Histograms by Example - Fig. 2

As you can see, there’s little to nothing on the left side of the histogram. The image is very biased toward the right hand side of the graph and judging from the high spike at the white point, we’ve really blown the highlight and lost some image data.

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Added Monday, November 27th, 2006 at 8:41 am under Tips.