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Introduction
With so much control it can seem rather daunting at first, but provided you always work using Adjustment Layers or Duplicate Layers, you can revert back to your original image and start again whenever you like. The aim of colour adjustment and white balance correction is often to produce a neutral image. While this may be what is required on many occasions, it can also strip the atmosphere from a scene. Colour is one of the best ways of conveying mood or atmosphere in an image, so rather than worrying about getting colours technically 'correct' or neutral, it's often more important to think about the emotion or sensation that you want to convey. For example, give a misty image a hint of blue and you'll shiver inside every time you look at it, but give it a touch of yellow and red and suddenly it seems that the sun is starting to burn off the mist with the promise of a warm, sunny day. A rich, warm autumnal image is very often far more attractive than a technically correct version. The decision is yours, but the most important consideration is the image itself and what works best.
Curves
Curves offer you control over image colour by manipulating the RGB channels separately. Although the Curves control is most commonly thought of as a way of adjusting brightness and contrast, it also provides a great method of adjusting image colour, because you can work on the individual colour channels of red, green and blue.
Original
In addition to tweaking the tones and contrast in your image, curves can also be used to correct colour.
Correct colour
Experiment with the individual red, green and blue for cool creative effects.
Cross-processed
Useful Tip: The Select Color Range Option
A useful tool for making a quick selection, or refining an existing one, is the Select Color Range option. Choose the Sampled Colors option, then use the Eyedropper tool to target an area. Use the Fuzziness slider to determine the range of colours included in the selection. To add colours to the selection, click on the image - or the preview - with the +Eyedropper and remove them with the -Eyedropper.
6 comments on “Quick Tips: Master Fundamental Colors in Photoshop”
I dont know that much about colors, so I just crank around on the sliders until things start to look cool :)
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