Enhancing color with the Lab Color space

In the next few movies, we'll be working with this photograph, and we're going to…look at some fascinating techniques that you can use in order to create vivid…and vibrant color in your photographs.…We'll focus in on the makeup, but we'll also explore how we can increase the…overall color palette of this picture.…And you know, a lot of times, when you look at a photograph like this, you think, wow!…The colors are so vibrant and alive.…Well we want to take that even further.…And in this first movie, we're going to use a technique which will involve…creating a duplicate version of our image,…converting the color space of that duplicate or copy file to lab, and then…applying adjustment using Curves, which will bring out the color.…

Eventually, we'll then bring all of that color back to the original file.…So there will be a few steps here, but these steps will really be worth it.…All right, well the initial step is to duplicate this file,…so go to Image, and then choose Duplicate.…This allows us to create a copy of this document.…