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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions

Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions - Photoshop Tutorial

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Neutralizing casts and smoothing transitions

In this final exercise of the chapter, we're going to modify the channel-by-channel curves settings in order to remove this purple color cast from the sky and the snow. I've gone ahead and saved my changes to this Purple sky.psd, found inside the 14_levels_curves folder. With this top layer selected, that is darken snow, make sure that layer is active, and that you're looking at the contents of the Adjustments panel here. I'm going to grab my gray eyedropper, and I'm going to move it down into a fairly purple region of the snow here, and I'm going to click on it, because the snow should just be neutral. All right, and that seems like it might have given the snow a bit of a green color cast now. That could be because I clicked on the wrong pixel. I've got my Eyedropper set to Point Sample. So, you know what, let's go ahead and change an eyedropper setting. I'll select the Eyedropper tool from the toolbox, and then I'll switch from Point sample to let's say 5 by 5 Average. I don't want…

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