10-minute color gradient to make summer photos more exciting

Colorful summer is a very good time to take pictures, but it is not easy to reproduce the color of the gorgeous. If you want to make your summer photos look more gorgeous, try the following tips to use custom gradient colors to make the screen more vibrant.

Do not underestimate the simple gradient tool, even the professional landscape photographer, will also use the gradient tool to make their work color performance icing on the cake.

Software version: Photoshop CS4 or above

Operation time: 10 minutes

Operation effect: Make the color of the picture more expressive

Before adjustment

After adjustment

"The operation goes Up"

1 Creating a color gradient

Select the Gradient tool and click the gradient preview swatch in the Options toolbar above to enter the editing interface. Select the first one in the preset-foreground to background-as the starting point for our adjustment.

2 customization options

Click the left color label and use the eyedropper to draw the color from the dark blue sky. Select the lower-right role label, enter r:192, g:113, b:0 in the window, and get bright orange. Click in the middle of the gradient to create a new color label and set it to white. Enter "Blue Orange gradient" in the name, click New, OK. Create a new layer and draw a gradient from top to bottom. Set the blending mode of the layer to soft light.

3 strengthen the tone and color

Select the top layer, select the layer > new Adjustment layer > Color order, the black, white, gray three values are set to 10/1.10/255, strengthen the dark and dark contrast. Next, create a new hue/saturation layer that adjusts the overall saturation to 10 to enhance the overall color.

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