Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorials
Basics / Color Range
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Alright, let us take a look now at a tool I am sure you have seen me use in previous lessons, but I have not explained it very well, and so let us do that now, let us look in detail at the tool for color selection that is very, very easy to use and really, really helps in the short cuts in color adjustments in an image and that is called the color range tool. You have seen me use this before and it is time now to go into this thing in a bit more detail. This is the photograph of a rainbow over Half Dome during a thunderstorm and I took this picture after having been backpacking for seven days and I had shot up all my good stuff and had only one roll of 400 Kodak Gold, your basic drugstore film, and that is all I had and I turned and looked and boy there is this photograph. So we did the best we could knowing it was going to be grainy, knowing that it was going to be a little bit flat from my color standpoint but here we sit, we are going to do some adjustments to it. And one of the first things we want to do to this is to give it a little more contrast, darken it somewhat so we can see the result a little easier of some of our adjustments, and that is a very easy to do. We are going to put a little contrast in there, put a little S curve on this image, and then we are going to go up and invoke the color range tool and the little eyedropper, you click on the pixel that it happens to fall on and every other pixel with that same color within a certain range will also appear down here. You know that whatever appears on white on this tablet here is what you are going to be able to adjust. Now as we click around in this image not a whole lot is coming up, because our fuzziness, why they named it fuzziness I will never know but they do so you just deal with it, but as the fuzziness goes down the range of the color pixels that you can choose really is reduced. So we bring this up and we can choose in the yellows, we choose in the blues and really what we want to do is, really accentuate the blues in this particular image. So we are not getting a whole lot that comes up, we are going to increase our fuzziness a little more, we click up here and that is really right there a good place, because you see these areas right here we want to kind of work on and we also want to pick this up, but you can see down here where those areas are pretty much selected and here at the bottom too. Now as I mentioned, we've got pretty good coverage of this up here. What about this? That is not too well represented. Well, if you want to add to what you have already selected without destroying the selection, push the shift key and then click on another area, and it will add this area blue right here to which you have already got. So we are going to take this selection, and we are going to say OK and it is going to establish a selection. And we are going to feather this a little bit, two pixels at the very most and that looks pretty good. Alright, then we go control H to remove the artifacting which we cannot see with all those marching ants, we just cannot see the result of our adjustments, so let us just get rid of them, I think what we want to use is the saturation. I want to increase the brilliance of those blues, let us pull that up, and then maybe we do want to darken this just a bit. Let's use the gamma adjustment there. Let's increase the brightness, there we go. See? We brought out the drama of the darkness, you know, mixed in with the sun shining on the thunderstorm clouds. Before and after. Before and after. Hey that looks pretty good; I think we've got that adjusted pretty well. Alright, let's take a look now, go up here and don't forget the deselect because we had that selection and we are going to go again to the color range tool, and we are going to go for the yellows this time. Broad spectrum of intensity on the yellows and what we initially chose was the yellows in the rainbow, and we also have some yellows in the cloud. On these kinds of adjustment I would drag until you see what you like. That right there is pretty much the way I want it to look. Let us go up, say OK and we are going to feather this two pixels and then we are going to hit control H or command H and get rid of the marching ants so we can see we are doing. Go to image - adjustments; let's do some contrast adjustments first and see how that looks. Might be a just a bit overpowering, but it is worth experimenting with to see what kind of reaction we will get. We push up and pull down, just a bit, just a little of an S curve in there, just kind of accentuate it a little. Then we go to preview there, like that, doesn't do too much but it gives it just enough to bring it out, to kind of compensate with the blues. But that is the color selection tool and really very simple, I mean, what you saw is pretty much all the color adjustment we are going to do on this photograph, that is all it needs. Remember our very early tutorials, do not overdo it, I think that looks really good, we have got other things to do with this photograph but in terms of color adjustment, I think we have got it.
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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