Photoshop Color Adjustment Tips

Photoshop is a familiar and often used image processing software, its powerful image processing function is indeed other image processing software can not match, the latest Photoshop 6 more traditional graphic design and web image production tightly combined. The PHOTOSHOP6 will enable graphic designers to once again experience the fun of graphic design and make it easier to display ideas on the screen. Of course, to learn Phtoshop 6, in addition to familiar with the basic functions of software, in the actual use of the skills you need to master, it can make you in the process of image processing more handy, spend the least time to do the best. More mastery of these skills will be the only way for you to step into the advanced application of Photoshop, OK, whether novice or veteran, let us grasp these practical application of essential skills, pave the road for our creation.

The first chapter color adjustment technique

The first thing to say is that the most basic technique in Photoshop is the color adjustment technique, which is one of the best skills for Photoshop, which is based on other graphics processing software, and it is essential to make beautiful images, the application of color patterns and the adjustment of color. Below we will make an introduction to the technique of color adjustment, again, we will not introduce the basic knowledge of color, we only talk about skill.

First, double-click the left mouse button in the blank to open a file (this is a small trick, maybe a lot of friends are still using shortcut keys or menu commands?), and then we will make a color understanding of this image, so that we create later. So how do you calculate the size of an image, the number of pixels? A few important information formulas are listed.

Total pixel:

Total pixel = width x height (calculated as a number of points)

File Size:

File size = Total pixel x unit pixel size (byte)

How is the unit pixel size calculated? The most commonly used RGB mode is 1 pixels equal to 3 Byte,cmyk mode 1 pixels equals 4 byte, whereas grayscale mode and dot matrix mode are 1 byte.

Print Size:

Print size = Total pixel/Set resolution (BPI)

Always know how big the picture is, right? So when you create a new file, you have to remember the rate of change you set. Relative to the Web page image, 72bpi is enough, and relative to print publishing, the resolution is more important, generally twice times the number of printed lines (LPI). With this formula, it's convenient to define the resolution before you create a new file. In addition, when the resolution is reduced from low to high, because the total number of pixels has not changed, so there will be poor image quality, so we recommend that in the initial definition of file attributes will be a higher resolution, change the size of the image from high to low, so that will not cause the problem of poor image quality.

Understand the basic information of the file, we will make some adjustments to the color, generally we use RGB mode to do the map, because it and we usually look at the color of the most similar way, do a map to more intuitive. However, in the print image we have to use CMYK mode to print, so the RGB mode to CMYK mode is an unavoidable process, although this is the case, we should do in RGB mode, processing and then converted to CMYK mode to print, Because the graphics in CMYK can not use a lot of Photoshop functions, this processing of the image caused a great limitation, in addition to the CMYK mode of the image is one-third larger than RGB. OK, turn to RGB mode, start our creation.

When we enter a image through the scanner, it is always the color distortion caused by the headache, but we can use a series of color adjustment techniques to make up. First, adjust the color levels of the image. Open the Adjust-levels Color Adjustment dialog box. Watch the pixel distribution of the image carefully. The histogram represents the entire image or the color level distribution within the selection, while the horizontal axis represents the color scale, varying from 0 to 255. The vertical axis represents the number of pixels of its color scale. It looks like a mountain, right? The high place of the mountain indicates that there are more pixels at this level, and conversely, fewer pixels.

The mountains are distributed on the right, indicating more bright parts of the image.

The mountains are distributed on the left side, indicating more dark parts of the image.

The mountains are distributed in the middle, indicating that the image is more tonal and lacks color contrast.

Mountain like comb, indicating that the image level has a jump-order phenomenon, some color order pixel lack, can not express the gradient, smooth and so on.

When you think the image is too bright, too dazzling, you can change the brightness of the input leves in the value of the color level, or the light level slider to the left to pull a little, so that the image will be the brightness of the color of a little darker. Be assured of bold changes, because if not, hold down the ALT key, Cancel (cancel) button will become reset (reset) button, click, the image is changed back to the original state.

Using the Eyedropper tool, you can visually adjust the image to a level of color. The three eyedropper tools represent the dark, middle, and bright parts, click one and pick the color on the image to change the corresponding slider position in input. Three tools corresponding to three points, dark straw corresponding to black spots, the middle color straw corresponding to Neutral point, the light of the straw corresponding to white spots. By setting the black, white, and neutral points, you can define the dark, bright, and neutral colors of the image, and then by adjusting the level slider, we can extend the gamut. When we get through the scanner image color level is compressed, you can set up black spots, white dots to enlarge the way to enlarge the image of the dark area and bright areas, so that the image color is richer, but also increased the image of the contrast. (Note that the eyedropper tool is not valid in lab mode)

Many people like to convert the image to grayscale mode to create Black-and-white image effect, but after doing so, there are many in RGB mode to use the command can not be used, in fact, in the production of Black-and-white image has a better way: through image (image)-adjust (adjust)-desaturate (go to saturation) in this way to adjust the image to grayscale mode, so that the image will also appear black and white, but in fact the image is maintained in RGB mode.

Want to change a different color to the person in the picture? Oh, this is not easy to do, it is impossible to ask me to get a selection box at 1.1, and then color it? hehe, of course not, as long as the use of color adjustment in the replacement color command. Open the Adjust-replace colro (replace color) instruction, and the following dialog box appears.

Pay attention to three straws, from left to right in turn is the color stick, Garchon bar, the selection of color stick. First of all, use the color stick on the image to select the colors to replace, and then in the range of fuzziness (allow) to adjust the allowable value, the larger the number, which means that the choice of color range is larger, conversely the smaller. To select or subtract color ranges, use the appropriate addition and selection bar, and finally in the transform (conversion) column, set the hue (hue), saturation (color) and lightness (brightness), you can replace the color in the range. If you need to contrast the picture, you can use the Auto contrast (auto contrast) feature, when Photoshop will automatically darken the darkest place of the image darker, the brightest place to deepen the white, so you can easily enhance the contrast of the image.

Image color Confusion, can be adjusted by color balance instruction (color Balance). Drag through the slider to convert the image to the corresponding color. The adjustment function does not do too much introduction, remember, check preserve luminosity (keep brightness) can maintain the middle hue of the image.

The gradient pair (gradient map) is a new color adjustment instruction in Photoshop 6.0, so if you want to make a gradient color effect chart, find it, absolutely right. In the dialog box dither (flutter) can make a smooth gradient, the face reverse (inversion) function can reverse gradient.

The other kinds of color adjustment instructions are similar, there is really no skill to speak, we used to be familiar with the natural to understand. So do not introduce. If you want to study in detail, please refer to other articles. But I do not recommend the use of color adjustment instructions, why? Because it has gradually been replaced by more powerful adjustment layers. We'll introduce the ability to adjust layers in the layer tips chapter. Color This chapter will be here.

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