I got a Photoshop question from Lynne in Iowa, a dear friend for many years. She asked how you could adjust an area of an image to make it pure white. I gave her a quick email response that outlined a technique but the question really deserves a more detailed and complete answer. So, Lynne, this is for you and anyone else who encounters this situation in Photoshop.
In this Photoshop tutorial I am going to show you how to make this correction using an adjustment layer. This technique actually applies to two situations that are encountered quite often – getting neutral blacks and neutral whites.