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Invert and Match Colors - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Invert and Match Colors
In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to invert the colors in a layer and then match those colors to another layer inside your composition. Specifically, we're going to invert the moon and then we're going to match it to the fiery red background. Along the way, we'll take advantage of a couple of color adjustment functions, at least one of which we haven't seen so far. I'm still working inside Road moon & sky. psd, found inside the 08_selections folder. Make sure that the moon layer is selected. Click on it, if it's not. Then to invert the colors, that is to create a kind of photonegative effect where everybody switches to its luminous opposite, that is black becomes white, white becomes black, red becomes cyan, blue becomes yellow and so on. You go up to the Image menu, you choose Adjustments and you choose Invert, or better yet, you press Ctrl +I or Command+I on the Mac. Now even though that's a static modification, that permanently affects the colors of pixels inside that…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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