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Cleaning and preparing your images for color

Cleaning and preparing your images for color - Photoshop Tutorial

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Cleaning and preparing your images for color

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- [Instructor] All right, now let's get started cleaning this up so we can add some color. The first thing we want to do is de-saturate. Now it's obvious that I need to do this because there is some red pencil in this illustration, but even if your scan is just appearing to be gray, it's a really good idea to de-saturate because there might be some little colors mixed in there. And to do that, we're going to go up to image, adjustments, and we're going to go down to de-saturate, and all that does is take all the color information out of the image. And now if you take a close look at it, you can see that the background's kind of dingy and gray To fix that, we're going to go up to image, adjustments, and this time, we're going to select levels. Now levels is kind of awesome. When you look at this area in the center, it's called a histogram. All the white information is over here where there's this big chunk of white, and the all the black information's on this side. And you can tell…

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