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Fine-tuning a surfboard color

Fine-tuning a surfboard color - Photoshop Tutorial

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Fine-tuning a surfboard color

- [Voiceover] Another great tool for fine tuning color is called selective color and that's what we'll be using here. We'll create two selective color adjustments in order to work on this photograph that I captured of this professional surfer here and the client came back to me and said, hey Chris, rather than yellow green, we want the surfboard to be green, green. We also want the ocean to be a bit more blue. So in situations like that, we can reach for the selective color tool. You can find it by either clicking on this icon right here and choose Selective Color or click on the icon up here in the adjustments panel. Either way, what this allows you to do is to go into different channels. You can target a channel and then fine tune the color. Now for me, what I'm gonna need to do is make two adjustments, one for the surfboard and one for the ocean. Now as I look at the ocean, I see that it has a lot of cyan in it. So I'm gonna go to that Cyan channel. And in the Cyan's I'll start to…

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