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Adjusting shadow saturation

Adjusting shadow saturation - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjusting shadow saturation

I have saved my progress as Saturated shadows.psd found inside the 16_smooth folder. In this exercise, we are going to take some of that saturation out of those shadows. We're quite zoomed-in on the image right now. Notice that we have some very purplish details in the head and inside of those compound eyes where the butterfly is concerned and then we have these strange warmish colors down below here at the bottom of the Image window and I'd like to neutralize those colors to a certain extent without harming the bright vivid colors that we want to keep because this is naturally a very colorful creature. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to start things off by making sure that we're working on that top layer and I'll go ahead and widen the Layers panel just a bit so that we can see that name, and I want that lum noise layer to be active so that we can constrain the effects of this next adjustment layer to just that layer and nothing more and this new adjustment layer will…

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