Blue Purple is a very classic group of colors. But it is not easy to control it well. Purple is very dazzling, color should not be too bright, with dark purple for better. Then in the selection of good blue and purple areas, step-by-step color can be.
Original
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Final effect
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1, start the tutorial before need to pull out the map, need to separate the grass part. The quickest way is to use the channel to pull the map. Enter the channel panel, copy the red channel and get a "red copy" channel. Press CTRL + M to adjust the curve to strengthen the contrast. Then use a black and white brush to paint the effect shown in the image below.
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2, back to the Layers panel, press CTRL + ALT + 4 to bring up the channel selection, press CTRL + J to copy the selection part of the image to the new layer.
Back to the background layer, use a pen to pull the background water shore part, copy to the new layer. Then the water shore and grassland part of the image merge, the effect is as follows.
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3, in the background layer above the creation of color balance adjustment layer, the shadow adjustment, parameter settings such as Figure 2, the effect is shown in Figure 4. This step adjusts the color of the lake.
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