…When it comes to working with color, sometimes…we're interested in removing color or changing colors.…Yet what about the situations where you want to enhance color,…you want to make colors more vivid and interesting in your photographs?…Well, with this photograph, we'll take a look at how we can do that…by creating two distinct color adjustment layers…and then two different curves adjustment layers.…This is a photograph of a side of a…building, which is located right next to one of my…favorite beaches in the world.…And I love the color pallet that we have, here, but…what I want to do is make these colors really come alive.…
So here, we'll begin by reaching for an adjustment layer which…allows us to increase color variety in saturation, it's called Vibrance.…Go ahead and click on that icon to create a Vibrance adjustment layer.…Next, what we're going to do, here, is increase the vibrance.…What this does is, it favors the weaker colors and brings…those out, or brings those up.…In other words, if there's a weaker color, it saturates that more.…
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1/10/2014- Isolating color
- Removing and highlighting color
- Selectively desaturating an image
- Hand painting in color in a specific area
- Posterizing an image
- Creating a sepia-toned look
- Colorizing an entire image
- Changing the background color
- Creating vibrant color with adjustment layers
- Copying and reusing color adjustments to a new photo
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome56s
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1. Creating an Attention-Grabbing Color Effect
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2. Hand Coloring Your Photographs
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Desaturating the background5m 36s
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Hand coloring the dress5m 1s
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Coloring the face5m 44s
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Adding color to the lips5m 32s
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Painting the eyes blue5m 20s
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3. Creating a Colorful, Posterized Look
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Coloring the face and shirt4m 14s
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4. Colorizing the Entire Image
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Having fun with colorizing5m 50s
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Creating vivid colors4m 22s
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5. Changing Colors in Your Photographs
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Making subtle color changes2m 34s
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6. Creating Vivid Color
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Conclusion
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Next steps43s
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