Photoshop Workbench 158: The Sledge Hammer of Color Correction
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Curves, Color Balance, and Selective Color adjustment layers are all outstanding tools for making subtle or moderate changes to the color of a subject. But when you’re ready to get really serious about color change, you need to turn to the “Sledge Hammer of Color Correction” (a.k.a. a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer). When a red leaf simply must be yellow, there’s no faster, more effective approach to radically altering it. In this tutorial, I illustrate two approaches. The first works extremely well when other colorful subjects do not surround the primary subject. The second is designed to target the primary subject at the exclusion of colorful neighboring subjects. Whichever approach you take, a 16-bit file is ideal since it is less likely to posterize under the intense pressure of significant color change.
Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 10:44 am
Great workbench as usual. Hue changes are very powerful creatively.
Quick keyboard shortcut I discovered yesterday – related to what you did. When in the quick selection tool, when in add mode, holding down the Alt/Option button will switch temporarily to the subtract mode (or vice versa). Makes it easy to correct leaks w/o having to move the mouse to the top of the screen to switch mode which is very disruptive to workflow.
Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Mark Johnson the velvet hammer :0) Neat workbench and thanks for the additional tip Jan! I love Photoshop!!
Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Great video. I had lost you for a while. Glad to find you again. Thanks for the great videos.