Understanding Histograms by Example

Image histograms can tell us a lot about image contrast as well. For instance, take a look a the following photograph and its histogram.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Understanding Histograms by Example - Fig. 4

This image has very little contrast. This is evidenced by the lack of white and dark values depicted on the histogram. Our graph starts about one stop beyond the black point and ends about one stop below the white point.

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