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It's perfect in the tutorial but it's lame when I do it myself)) I just can't understand how marquee tool and histogram help us to match the tonality...

semaev,

The histogram is graphing the amount of each shade of an image. At the left it shows shadows. In the middle are mid-tones, and at the right are the highlights. In the tutorial two photos are placed next to each other in one file, so the histogram is showing the average for both files. In order to see the histogram for only one photo you must select its area with the marquee. Then select an area over the other photo to see its histogram for comparison.

bchernicoff,

Thank you for detailed explanation, please tell me one more thing: when we are moving black and white points with the curves layers - we are trying to make the left and the right edges of histogram look same? What if we have really different shapes on the histograms of these two pictures?

Well, I only got made it to the first minute of this until I got stuck - I created the Solid Color adjustment layer, but for the life of me I cannot find how to get PS to show thathistogram. I am using CS5. Anyone able to help?

I am stuck at the last step, after adjusting the saturation levels to get them to match. How do you turn the saturation map's visibility off to where you see the edited image underneath it? When I turn the visibility off, all I see is the solid color layer with the color marks under the selective color top layer... not sure what I did wrong.