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Masking away color problems in specific areas

Masking away color problems in specific areas - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking away color problems in specific areas

Sometimes when you color correct your photographs with curves or levels, it will require one In other situations, you may need to make other adjustments in order to correct certain areas in your photograph. And this is a photograph that will work on which will require two steps. This is a picture of one of my good friends with his three daughters. I love how he's just surrounded by all of his kids here. So, here, let's go ahead and click on the Curves Adjustment Layer icon to create a new layer. Then we'll click on our Mid-tone Eyedropper, and in this case I'm going to click on the garment here, the shoulder of the garment of this little one here. And when we do that, we can see the color correction. Here's the before, here's the after. It's pretty subtle, but it just warms the image up a bit. It makes it a bit more inviting. Yet next, what I want to do is work on the shirt. If we were to use our eyedropper and click on the shirt, what would happen is it would just be over the top…

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