From the course: Photoshop: Creative Lab Color
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Working with the exclusion blending mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Creative Lab Color
Working with the exclusion blending mode
- [Instructor] Let's take the process of applying L-channel curves to rescue areas of an L-channel inversion that may have ended up being too dark or too light a bit further by using the LAB inversion as well as the L-channel inversion and combining them using subtract and exclusion blending modes. That's a mouthful. Fortunately, putting together pieces of the LAB color puzzle that you've already learned, this becomes pretty straight forward. Furthermore, this process is a piece of a general process toward creating spectacular LAB color images. So the steps here are an introduction to the techniques that you'll be using as you go along. Let's suppose you have a high-key image on white, you've inverted the L-channel to put the image on black, then selectively applied curve adjustments to the L-channel to bring the brightness and darkness into line. If you'd like to see this covered in detail, it is explained earlier in the course. Check out these flowers on black. The results are…
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