Photoshop Color Tools
Learn how to use the color adjustment tools in Adobe Photoshop CS4 to achieve unprecedented control of your images. Learn how to make every adjustment tool more precisely target specific components of color using blend modes and selections / masks that allow you to target specific hues or luminosity values.
Release Date: 2010-01-13
Lessons
HSL Color Space
<p>Hue Saturation Luminosity is a simple language that breaks out the three essential components of color</p>
Duration: 5 mins 22 seconds
Monitor Histograms
<p>The histogram graphs the tonal structure of your image</p>
Duration: 9 mins 12 seconds
Raw Conversion
<p>Use Photoshop for the precision adjustments but much of the heavy lifting can be done when converting from Camera Raw</p>
Duration: 14 mins 34 seconds
File Editing Strategy
<p>Building your files in a consistent way to maximize quality</p>
Duration: 4 mins 35 seconds
Global Then Local
<p>Resist the temptation to work selectively</p>
Duration: 11 mins 32 seconds
The Right Tools, Part 1
<p>Go through Photoshop's tools and evaluate which ones to use with color and which ones to leave alone</p>
Duration: 10 mins 7 seconds
The Right Tools, Part 2
<p>Exploring the Exposure and Color Balance tools and evaluating their usefulness</p>
Duration: 2 mins 33 seconds
The Right Tools, Part 3
<p>Exploring the Black and White, Photo Filter, and Channel Mixer tools</p>
Duration: 3 mins 20 seconds
The Right Tools, Part 4
<p>This lesson talks about the Invert, Posterize, and Gradient Map adjustment tools</p>
Duration: 3 mins 32 seconds
The Right Tools, Part 5
<p>Continuing with adjustments like Shadow and Highlights, variations, and Match Color. This lesson finishes with a look at Camera Raw 5</p>
Duration: 9 mins 54 seconds
Blend Modes
<p>There are 4 blend modes that are particularly useful</p>
Duration: 4 mins 57 seconds
Shadows Highlights
<p>Excellent for recovering dynamic range</p>
Duration: 3 mins 36 seconds
Channel Blending
<p>Taking the good color information from one channel and blending it with another channel to optimize the file</p>
Duration: 8 mins 30 seconds
Setting Dynamic Range
<p>A fundamental question in any image is how to handle the shadows and highlights and all the colors in between</p>
Duration: 12 mins 1 seconds
Curves
<p>One of the most powerful tools in the Photoshop tool set</p>
Duration: 12 mins 16 seconds
High Pass Contrast
<p>Contrast is an essential aspect of color. This lesson reviews the many types of contrast</p>
Duration: 5 mins 46 seconds
Selective Color
<p>This tool allows users to target adjustments in specific ranges of hue</p>
Duration: 4 mins 44 seconds
Saturation and Vibrance
<p>Saturation will help define a specific color palette for the statement you are making</p>
Duration: 8 mins 14 seconds
Targeting Hues
<p>There is a wide range of saturation choice when working with any image</p>
Duration: 5 mins 35 seconds
Photo Filter and Color Overlays
<p>Photographers often use filtration to affect the color relationships in their images</p>
Duration: 8 mins 36 seconds
Match Color
<p>The Match Color tool allows users to dramatically alter the color in their photographic compositions</p>
Duration: 6 mins 42 seconds
Black and White
<p>How to easily achieve and experiment with the black and white tonal structure</p>
Duration: 5 mins 28 seconds
Select by Color Range
<p>The ability to make specific selections adds flexibility to all of the adjustment tools</p>
Duration: 3 mins 49 seconds