Let's give you a detailed analysis of the color matching function for all-round Popular Science.
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One second to bring up beautiful colors! Today I will bring you a basic tutorial to explain in detail a very powerful command in Photoshop: "match color". The tutorial is not only special, but also has a very high face value, want to thoroughly learn this function? Just rely on this article!
First, since we need to use the "match color" command, we need two matching images first, right. Therefore, open Bridge.
To make the demo clearer. Here we found two portrait photos with a large contrast. A warm color and a cold color. Enter them separately and put them in photoshop.
In ps, we will copy a layer to see the comparison effect.
Then the matching colors are used respectively. We chose the cool-colored girl to match the warm-colored film as the "source".
We can see the editing interface for matching colors. Here we will explain it one by one. However, you can use it to understand some of its meanings. There is no selection area in the warm films we want to match, so the option "ignore selection area during application adjustment" here is not activated. Let's continue. We can see the cold picture in the "source" window below.
Find the warm sister
Click OK.
Comparison chart:
The above demo is by default. Next, let me talk about the editing options in the match color command. We selected another photo of my sister. Turn off the cool sister.
The target is the one you want to change the color. Because there is no selection area in the layer, the first selection box is not activated.
Brightness and color intensity are the adjustment options for new images after matching. (you can give it a try to get an objective understanding when you pull the image. Fading is the intensity of the matching effect. When you push it to 100, the original slice is restored. Neutralization, which is a soft match between two photos. This value is intelligently controlled by a computer.
Let's Activate "ignore the selected area when the application is adjusted. Next we will go back to the warm sister and use the rectangular box selection tool to create a selected area.
Then we will perform color matching. You will find that the "ignore during application adjustment" checkbox is activated. Here we want to apply the constituency, so we will not check it here ~!!
In the "source", find the photo of the car model and you will find that matching is only part of the selection area. Others remain unchanged.
In addition, if you calculate and adjust using the target constituency, the effect is more serious than before.
This is not checked in the "use target selection area calculation adjustment" selection box.
Why. Uncle briefly explained the reason. The computer performs matching by first analyzing the color information of the "source" image, and then assigning the "source" color information to the image to be matched based on the percentage. If this image is 1000*1000 pixels, the "source" information is allocated to the range of 1000*1000. If we make a 1000*1000 constituency in the range of 500*500 pixels, and apply the constituency calculation adjustment, then the "source" information is only allocated to the range of 500*500. The effect is even more serious.
It can be seen that the source graph we are looking for is better than the graph you want to match.
Okay. Let's look down. You can see two options: "Load statistics" and "store Statistics ".
This is the power of computers. If you have a very nice color picture, but the image is too big. It would be too troublesome to open the image for matching each time you call the photo. Can we just use the color of this image ??
The answer is yes. Photoshop automatically analyzes the color data of large "sources". You only need to click "store statistics" to save the information to the specified location. Next time, you only need to click "load statistics" to load the data, and then you can directly perform the matching without opening the image.
Here, I stored the photo of this model's crush and named it "model and car dark colors ". On the desktop.
This is the data information of the image.
It is only 19.6kb. Very small and can be copied to others ~
Next, we would like to remind you that the "source" can also be a psd file. When there are multiple layers in the psd file, select the layer image to match. To demonstrate it.
First, create a new psd file named "Mountain sunset" with several images in it, so that the psd has multiple layers.
Let's go back to the psd of the warm girl and use the match color command for her. Here the corresponding Layer name appears in the layer options.
This is for the entire background.
Shark layer:
The effect of the street dance layer.
In addition. Matching colors can also be applied to different layers in the same psd file. However, it is worth noting that smart objects cannot use this command.
Practical drills
Create a file.
Drag a gradient background. Then place the materials for the car and motorcycle. Here we chose a white car and a green motorcycle for the effect.
Raster smart objects. The reason for rasterization is that smart objects cannot use this command.
We match the color of the white car to match the color of the motorcycle. Because we only want to change the car body, we can select the tires and then select them. Obtain a selection area and then match the color.
Invert selection. Get what the wheel thinks.
After the color match.
The car is colored. But not very nice. That's because there are too many different colors. The car is white. However, the process is like this.
Case 2
Put the green motorcycle in one scene.
This is a scenario diagram:
We use this scenario as the "source" to let motorcycles match it. The effect is as follows:
A bit of color is a lot more unified. Then let's take a look at the details. Light and shade adjustment.
Create a new shadow layer to draw shadows.
Observe the shadow of the source image.
Then use a steel stroke to blur the motion, and blur the Gaussian. (Here I am doing a rough job)
Add a layer to draw some dark parts of the lower body.
The comparison chart after completion. Is it because the former is not processed ~
Although the matching color is strong, it must be well matched. Image quality is also required. The following are two matching results:
SOURCE image:
After matching
This is the end of the tutorial.
1. In fact, the matching color is still widely used in photo synthesis. However, compared with the real color sorting command, it is not very reliable but fast.
2. If you want to quickly color the photo and see a beautiful photo later, you also want to make a similar effect for your photo. Try this command.
3. Image information data can be stored. For good photos, you can save them and call them to match them next time.
All right, the above information is the full range of color matching functions provided by Xiaobian to users of this software of photoshop, you can see that the software users here, Xiaobian believes that everyone is very clear about the color matching function, I hope that the information parsed above can help users of photoshop software.
