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Learn to select, adjust and modify colors within an image

Selective Color Grading

Inside Photoshop:

Student Examples

Assignment:

Using this project file., follow the steps below to create the color grading shown.


Adjusting a specific Color:


Select the dress:

  • Use the quick select tool [or other selection tools] to select the dancer's dress

  • Click the "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer"

  • Adjust Hue: 146

  • Adjust Saturation: -51

  • Adjust lightness: -5

Select the Smoke:

  • Select> Color RangeClick on color of smoke in image
    Hold SHIFT and add lighter/darker color smoke
    Adjust "fuzziness" to select all of the smoke and then click "OK"
    Click the "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer
    Adjust the selection by painting black/white in the layer mask
    Hue: -51

Adjust Levels:

  • Levels adjustment should sit at above all other layers

  • Choose the "sample in image lack point"  [the top eyedropper to the left of the histogram]Click on the darkest area of the dress and drag the cursor up (to decrease brightness)

  • Choose the "sample in image white point"  [the bottom eyedropper to the left of the histogram]Click on the brightest area of the smoke and drag the cursor up (to increase brightness)

  • Click the RGB dropdown:
    See the gallery images for an example of what the RGB channels below should look like:

  • Red:

  • Green:

  • Blue:

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