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Using the match color command we can use the luminance values in one image to affect how another image is going to look. So it's a very interesting effect. What we are going to do is take this bright day and cool it down to look like this kind of sky. So I'm gonna go to my image menu and I'm going to choose adjustments and I'm going to select right here where it says match color. The dialog box appears and what we can do is choose from this list of destination which is kind of important, which is gonna be our source. So I'm gonna choose, [00:00:29 ] let's see if I can find the right image here, there he is. And right away you can see a change and what we can do as well is we can adjust the luminance and we can make it warmer and we can make it cooler by using the slider. We can also change the color intensity. So I can drop the color intensity down and bump the luminance up to try to match those pixels. I don't want to blow it out too much. Likewise I can fade this effect out a little bit, try to get some of that orange back in there if I want to. So I'm gonna leave that down a little bit and play around with the color intensity, just to try to get this blue color to really make this look nice and cool. I can also neutralize any color cast and almost desaturate it completely. So I'm gonna leave that off. Let's go ahead and see what this looks like. This is a huge difference, now it looks like a nice cool misty morning or an afternoon based on this images values here. So what we can do is the same thing with this guy, so I'm going to undo this, actually I'm gonna revert this image here. Let me go over here and revert and I'm going to now choose this image and we're gonna use the other one as our source. So I'm gonna go to adjustments, I'm going to choose match color and I'm gonna go to this list once again and choose the source as the other image. Let me grab the right one and look at that already we get this sunset feeling going on. So once again we can go ahead and bump up the luminance and we can also do the same thing with the color intensity and we can change how this image looks based on the values in the other image. And right away this, I think this is even more dramatic effect then the other one. You can neutralize that cast if you want to, to give it a little bit more of blue sky. But I'm gonna turn that off just to show how dramatic this can be and I'll click OK. So using the match color command you're able to very realistically change the way an image looks based on the time of day using the luminance in that image and you can also cool it down and warm it up a little bit and if you want to get rid of the colorcast you can do that as well.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |