Color correction is one of the important factors affect directly the result of images. If we have two pictures: white and black pictures and pictures with prominent color, which one do you prefer?. Beautiful images with stunning color will surely be a wonderful choice. So, color correction an image is one of the most common uses of Photoshop. How to make the color correction in Photoshop. If you don’t know the way about the color correction in Photoshop, here some quick tips show you different ways on how to color correct on image. Let’s get started.
Color Balance Adjustment Layer
To get started, you should open an image that you think has a color board. After, you choose layer-> new adjustment layer-> color balance, this gives you information about the pixels in your image. Using the adjustment layer is the best way that it can either remove adjustment or edit the adjustment at the later time.
You will see the appearance of color board to choose, then, color balance box will appear to support your work. Before applying the color balance adjustment layer, I think that you should make a copy of the background layer, then turn off the background. Then, choose the Color Balance adjustment layer option in the Adjustments panel.
Selecting the slider that has the tint color and move it away from the tint color. For example, since the image has a yellow, you want to move the cyan or yellow slide towards cyan to remove the yellow tint. You may also want to adjust the other two sliders to get the color you want for the image. Let’s click on double right arrow at the top right of the panel to finish with the adjustment.
If you want to change the different color, you can always go back in and make adjustment to the color balance properties by clicking on the layer thumbnail. Besides, you can use Gradient adjustment layer to make prominent color.
Curves
With some photographers, curves in an image will an intimidation factor, it will affect directly the quality of image. Don’t worry about this, we will help you adjust the curves. To adjust the curves, you have to click on the Curves Adjustment layer in the Adjustment Layers panel. You will see the appearance of Curves Proprieties Layer.
Notice the drop down option next to the RGB channel. Not only can you change all channels at one time (your image is a combination of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) channels), you can also change the individual channels. If you reviewed the Color Balance Adjustment Layers above, you are also aware of the ‘opposite’ colors of each of these individual channels. The original curve is a diagonal line from bottom left to top right. If you want to effect the reds in the darker areas, I adjust the line towards the bottom left. If you want to effect the red in the lighter areas, you can adjust the line towards the top right.
If you want to remove some of the cyan introduced when we adjusted the Red channel, select the blue channel and drag the middle of that line down slightly. You can continue to adjust the curves in the various channels till you have the color you desire.
Increase Contrast
Using increase Contrast technique will a perfect choice that help your image more prominent. To crease contrast an image, you can use Levels Adjustment Layer. First, choose layer-> new adjustment layer->levels.
The Levels properties panel shows a histogram. This is a quick visual that shows the range of tones in the image. This particular histogram shows a lack of light or white areas. The data on the histogram doesn’t extend all the way to the right, nor is it all the way to the left.
Click and drag the white arrow adjusts the light or whites area of image to the left until it under the right edge of data of the histogram see setting in above image. Click and drag that black arrow adjusts the darks or blacks to the right until it is just under the left edge of data of the histogram.
Auto Color
Auto color is considered as the quickest way to color correct an image, if you need to something quick, use auto color to solve all problems.
Choose Image->Auto color from the main menu, this technique will determine what needs to be adjusted and perform the color correction for you. However, this technique have also some disadvantages and one of them is that you are depending on Photoshop to determine the best color adjustment.
Here are four tips to color correct in Photoshop. We hope you found it interesting. Do you believe that If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us and comment below this post.
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