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Making Lab patterns

Making Lab patterns - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making Lab patterns

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- Making Lab patterns involves using three different mechanisms. Lab color adjustments, the palette of blending mode possibilities, duplicating, mirroring, and rotating the entire image. When I first started experimenting with combining these techniques, I think the thing that amazed me most was that one could get rich colors in an image even when starting with an essentially monochromatic or monotonic image. The colors are always completely surprising. I love playing with Lab patterns using channel adjustments, blending modes and image mirroring. Here's the photo of a tiled staircase in Sicily. I've already duplicated it, converted the dupe to Lab, and run my action, also the original dupe copy has been converted back to RGB. The first thing I want to show you is that it's easy to flip an image horizontally or vertically. Let's take the A Equalization, because it's such an attractive bit of complementary colors here, and select Image, Image Rotation, Flip Canvas Horizontally. Note…

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