Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques- P11

Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques- P11: Staring at a shelf full of Photoshop books at the localbookstore, it seems that there are more special-effect“cookbooks” and technical tomes than anyone would evercare to read. The problem is that none of those “cookbooks”provide enough detail to really let you feel like youunderstand the program
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Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques- P11Chapter 8 Color Manipulation With this select-and-adjust approach, you use the adjust- ment layer to mask out areas of color (Figure 8.32), and then you refine the result by painting on the adjustment layer’s mask with a black brush. If you remove too much of the colorization, just paint with white. Painting with white causes the adjustment to apply to a larger area of the image, whereas black limits which areas are adjusted. If the color is too intense, simply paint with a shade of gray on the adjust- ment layer, which causes the adjustment to apply in dif- fering amounts. The darker the shade of gray, the less the adjustment will apply. Another option is to double-click the thumbnail icon for the adjustment layer (to the left of the layer name) to modify the settings that are being applied. Figure 8.32 By using the Adjustments panel, you can instantly create an adjustment layer to mask out areas of color. With this type of adjustment, usually there will be too much color in the darkest and brightest areas of the image. To limit the amount of color applied to these areas, choose Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options while the adjust- ment layer is active (Figure 8.33). Pull in the lower-left slider in the Blend If area until all the color is disappear- ing from the darkest areas of the image. You don’t want to remove the color completely, so hold down Option/ Alt and drag the left edge of the slider that you just moved until you get a smooth transition in the shadow areas of the image. Before you click OK, move the right slider a short Figure 8.33 Use the Blending Options to balance areas with too much color. distance and then Option/Alt-drag its right edge until the color blends into the brightest parts of the image. With a little experimentation, you’ll be able to find the setting that looks best for the image (Figures 8.34 and 8.35).286 III: Grayscale, Color, and PrintFigure 8.34 The color of the backdrop Figure 8.35 After reducing thecould be a little less saturated. amount of color in the shadow areas, the image looks better.Replacing ColorIf you like the general ideas discussed so far, but didn’thave complete success isolating areas based on hues, trychoosing Image > Adjustments > Replace Color (Figure8.36). In essence, Replace Color combines the ColorRange command with the color-shifting capability foundin the Hue/Saturation controls. The advantage of usingReplace Color is that instead of having to figure out theexact Hue, Saturation, and Lightness settings necessary toget the desired result, you just define the desired color byclicking the color swatch at lower right in the dialog. Figure 8.36 The Replace Color dialog is a combination of the Color Range command and the Hue/Saturation controls in the Adjustments panel. Here, the green leaves are selected, ...