Luminosity Control In Photoshop

What does it take to visualize luminosity in black-and-white and color photography, then see and control it in Photoshop?

George DeWolfe

Updated June 30, 2016

Luminosity is represented in a photograph by tones of black, white and gray. Luminosity is light. It represents all that we can see about the world we photograph. Every object, event and mood depends upon visible light represented by luminosity in the photograph.

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Originally Published August 1, 2007

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