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Experimenting with color

Experimenting with color - Photoshop Tutorial

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Experimenting with color

The reality of being creative and of being an artist is that you don't always know what path to take. You need to experiment. You need to test out different ideas. So when I was working on this photograph one of the things that I did next was I experimented with color, and I want to show you how I worked with color here just to try to determine if I wanted to have this image in color or black and white. Well before we do that let's go ahead and merge our burn and dodge layer down to the details layer. So if you click in one layer, then hold down the Shift key and click in another, you can use the shortcut which we learned previously to merge layers together, that is the Command+E key on a Mac or Ctrl+E key on Windows and we'll go ahead and name this details. Next what I want to do is I want to modify the color of this image by using two different adjustment layers. The first adjustment layer that we're going to apply is a Black & White adjustment layer. Now I'm actually not going to…

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