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Chapter 11

Chapter 11. Adjusting Colors. Chapter Lessons. Correct and adjust color Enhance colors by altering saturation Modify color channels using levels Create color samplers with the Info panel. Enhancing Color.

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Chapter 11

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  1. Chapter 11 Adjusting Colors

  2. Chapter Lessons • Correct and adjust color • Enhance colors by altering saturation • Modify color channels using levels • Create color samplers with the Info panel

  3. Enhancing Color • Use color-enhancing tools to change the mood or personality of a color by changing its tonal values • Tonal values (also called color levels): • Numeric values of an individual color • Used to duplicate a color

  4. Reproducing Colors • Use color adjustment tools to specify exactly how colors should appear when printed • Colors levels are modified by making adjustments to the input and output levels

  5. Correct and Adjust Color Making Color Corrections • Balancing color: • Add and subtract colors from those already existing in a layer • Correct oversaturated or undersaturated color • Remove color casts from an image

  6. Color Balance Dialog Box • Contains three sliders: • Cyan-Red • Magenta-Green • Yellow-Blue • Adjust colors by dragging sliders or typing values in the Color Levels text boxes

  7. Modifying Curves • Use the Curves dialog box to alter the output tonal value of any pixel input • Change as many as 16 points along the 0-255 scale in the Curves dialog box: • Horizontal axis: original intensity values (Input levels) • Vertical axis: modified color values (Output levels)

  8. Curves Settings in Properties Panel Active Setting Values for Active Setting

  9. Analyzing Colors • Create an adjustment layer • Experiment with color corrections: • Adjust the color sliders and view changes to the image • Modify the curves

  10. Variations Dialog Box • In the Variations dialog box, view thumbnails of color variations while making color adjustments

  11. Enhance Colors by Altering Saturation Understanding Saturation • Purity of a particular color • The higher the saturation level, the more intense the color • Modify color saturation using: • The Hue/Saturation dialog box • Sponge tool

  12. Using the Sponge Tool • Use to increase or decrease the color saturation of a specific area within a layer • Sponge tool settings include: • Brush size • Saturation or de-saturation levels • Speed with which the color flows into or from the Sponge tool

  13. Saturation Example Reds Saturated After Before

  14. Understanding Hue • Hue is the amount of color that is reflected from an object • Assigned a measurement from 0 to 360 degrees • Described in terms of tints or shades (red, yellow-green, blue, gold, etc.)

  15. Adjusting Hue/Saturation • In the Hue/Saturation dialog box use the following sliders: • Hue • Saturation • Lightness

  16. Converting to Grayscale • Use the Hue/Saturation settings to apply grayscale tones to an object in an image Object in Grayscale

  17. Modify Color Channels Using Levels • Use the Levels settings to make adjustments across a tonal range: • Uses the composite color channel or individual channel • The Levels feature uses a histogram and displays light and dark color values on a linear scale

  18. Histograms • A graph that represents the frequency distribution of colors in an image • Adjustments are made to the input and output levels • Plotted data indicates the total number of pixels for a given tonal value

  19. Levels Dialog Box Histogram showing plotted data

  20. Sliders • Levels settings contains six sliders that are used to make color adjustments: • Shadows slider • Midtones slider • Highlights slider • Output shadows slider • Output highlights slider

  21. Create Color Samples with the Info Panel • Use the Color Sampler tool to sample and store up to four distinct color samplers • Apply each of the four color samples to an image • Use the samplers to make color adjustments

  22. Each sample represented by a number Color Samplers Sample 1 Sample 2

  23. Info Panel • Displays the following information: • Actual color values for current color mode • CMYK values • X & Y coordinates of the pointer location • Width and height of a selection • Info panel expands to show color measurement information when a color sample is created

  24. Info Panel with Color Samplers RGB Color Values CMYK Color Values Pointer Coordinates Width & Height Color Samplers

  25. Manipulating Color Samplers • Move a color sampler by dragging the sampler icon to a new location: • Color value information is updated in the Info panel • Delete any of the samplers

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