From the course: Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Color
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Two-step approach to improving color - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Color
Two-step approach to improving color
- [Voiceover] This course is obviously all about color, but as we saw in the previous movie, color and light are closely created, and so here I wanna take a look at a two step approach to improving color, which is something that I often do, and it involves working with masking and curves as well as hue saturation. So this photograph, I was down at the beach photographing a friend and she stuck her surfboard in the sand and I thought it was kind of beautiful. What I wanna do is brighten up the surfboard. I wanna pay attention to light and color, and eventually I need to bring out these reds, but I'm gonna work with my brightness first. So first things first, I'll go ahead and grab the quick select tool and just click and drag over the surfboard. I wanna make a good selection of the object or the area that I wanna work on. With this one, I'll go into select and mask, and just make sure I have all that selected there, and with select and mask, I wanna look at my edges. They look actually…
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Changing colors with adjustment layers5m 27s
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Changing clothing color6m 7s
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Hue/Saturation color controls review4m 39s
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Masking in color changes5m 42s
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Changing hat color5m 40s
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Changing scarf color4m 21s
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Three ways to change eye color, part 15m 31s
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Three ways to change eye color, part 23m 23s
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Two-step approach to improving color4m 20s
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Customizing background color3m 48s
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Adding a new background color5m 31s
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Challenge: Color change1m 6s
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Solution: Color change, part 13m 53s
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Solution: Color change, part 22m 10s
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