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Save a flat sky

Save a flat sky - Photoshop Tutorial

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Save a flat sky

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- [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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