Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Basics / Curves/Slide Scans
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Let us take a look now at a way that you really should approach color correction on portraits. Again as I mentioned, color correction on portraits is a very, very precise process and I am getting ready to show you what you can do with the curves dialog box. We hadn't looked at the curves for anything other than overall tonal adjustments, but the curves dialog box is really your best tool for the most precise color adjustments, which is very important on portrait work. We have looked at it for brightening and lowering the overall brightness; we can use it to adjust our contrast with a lot more precision. We have done all these things before, but wow, when you talk about what it can do with color, then is when you really start to spread your wings in Photoshop. Obviously this a blue tint on this photograph, and we are going to drop down the channel box on the curves dialog box and take a look, and choose blue and it is a little demonstration of what it can do, it takes blue away, but it does not add yellow, which is very important consideration, if you take it above, then you are obviously adding blue. The same thing goes for the other sections of the RGB spectrum, we come down and we take the red away and we add red and so on. In order to make the color adjustments that we want to, first of all we bring the overall blue level down on the entire photograph and that is a good start. What we want to do, however, so we that can see we are doing a little better on this particular shot is let us increase the saturation so we can really see what is going on and as we boost the saturation, we see that we still have quite a bit of blue residual in the highlights in the brighter areas of her cheek and nose bridge, and highlights on her forehead up here, so we are going to select curves and we do not bring that down like that, we will not bring it down anymore because we are done with the adjustments in the mid-ranges of the tonal spectrum for blue. So let us go up here and bring it down on the highlights. Look at that, that is the way it needs to look, see how small the adjustments are that you cannot achieve the color balance dialog box, you can just make itty bitty adjustments here on very specific areas of tonal range, really, really make it look good. The green needs to be adjusted out just a little bit, takes that blue right out, but it does not disturb any other area of the photograph. Now I am just going to experiment with this red section just to see what that does, there you go. Now considering what we started with, I think that is about the best that this particular image is going to do for us. And what we might do, let us flatten this, let us combine all these adjustment layers and then do an overall adjustments. Let's give this a nice curve and see what happens, like that. How does that look? And then let's do a saturation adjustment, not bad and we will continue to do other adjustments on this photograph that will continue to improve it. But from a color balance standpoint I think that right there is about the best that we are going to do. The curves dialog box, that is where you want to be when you're doing portraits and making color adjustments.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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