From the course: Photoshop: Creative Lab Color
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The power of opacity - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Creative Lab Color
The power of opacity
- [Instructor] Sometimes nature and all its imperfections seems pretty perfect to me. When you take a photo of something that is pretty perfect, you want to be careful in post-production about messing around too much. So it goes with Photoshop filters, plug-ins, and modifications in post-production, and nowhere more true than when using LAB channel equalizations as an adjustment for colors. At a 100% opacity, an LAB channel equalization, such as the A channel adjustment shown here, most likely will look artificial and garish. My recommendation is to never go above about 20% net opacity with one of these equalizations, and often, to stay far below that. I've used LAB channel equalizations at four and 5% of net opacity to great effect, when even one or two percentage points higher would have blown the whole image out of good taste. I've used the word net in relationship to opacity. What exactly do I mean by that? Well, when you hide a layer with a black hide-all-layer mask, and then…
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