Do Away With Gray

Reveal the color and contrast in your murky digital images

Maura C. Lanahan

Published January 1, 2006
Updated June 30, 2016

Flat and dull. While the tones in your images sometimes can be described by these two words, simple techniques in your image-processing software allow you to quickly take out the grays and add depth, detail and a punch of color.

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