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Save a flat sky - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Color
Save a flat sky
- [Instructor] In the previous movie I used a vibrance adjustment layer to help build density in a flat sky. To make the blues of a sky bluer. But when you have a sky that is blown out, where there are no blues, vibrance won't work. There simply isn't enough color information to work with. Instead, I can use a selective color adjustment. I'll come to my list of adjustment layers and choose selective color. Now the colors that I want to work with are the whites. And because I want to make quite a drastic change I have this set to absolute, rather than relative, which will be a more subtle effect. I'm going to increase the amount of cyan, slightly increase the amount of magenta, decrease the yellow, and slightly increase the amount of black. Here's the before, and here's the after. Let's take a look at this second example where the sky is completely flat, no detail whatsoever. So we are going to be shifting from a flat white to a flat, there is still goonna be no detail in there, but a…
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Create a signature color with selective saturation1m 45s
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Desaturate to create a nostalgic image2m 34s
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Build density in a sky1m 53s
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Save a flat sky1m 29s
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Design with Spot Color3m 42s
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Creative toning with a gradient map3m 1s
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Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette5m 6s
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Replace colors3m 18s
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Create a consistent look with color lookup tables and layer effects5m 59s
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Match color4m 33s
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