From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Primary colors and luminance ranges - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Primary colors and luminance ranges
In addition to selecting an image by identifying key colors using that Eyedropper the Color Range command also let's you select predefined color and luminance ranges. And we are going to see how that works inside this image. And what I've done is map all the colors in the visible spectrum, at least where the world of digital imaging is concerned onto a big wheel. And so we start over here in right- hand side with red, progress through yellow and so forth. The most intensely versions of each color are located along the perimeter of the wheel and then toward the center we see the Saturation drop off until the very center point is absolutely gray. Now each of the primary colors of light is identified with this old-style CRT monitor. So we've got red and green and then toward the bottom of the image we have blue and each of the primary colors in the print world is identified by this little printer, so we've got cyan, magenta and then up north here we have yellow. I've also gone ahead and…
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Introducing the Color Range command5m 59s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box7m 7s
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Primary colors and luminance ranges4m 12s
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A terrific use for Color Range4m 57s
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Introducing the Quick Mask mode7m 43s
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Moving a selection into a new background5m 43s
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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners8m 43s
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Integrating foreground and background4m 44s
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Creating a cast shadow from a layer2m 51s
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Releasing and masking layer effects3m 11s
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect4m 30s
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Masking and compositing your rainbow4m 46s
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The best selection tools are commands1m 5s
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