The difference and application method of hue saturation/optional color/color balance/curve in PS

The difference and application method of hue saturation/optional color/color balance/curve in PS

　Overall idea:

1, the use of color mixing mode to create the tone of the photo.

2, the use of color balance of different exposure areas to adjust to create color bias.

3, use the optional color to enhance the expressive force of the light.

4. Use sponge tools or HSL to adjust the saturation of the light.

5, sharpening.

6, dark angle.

　　Divide by color:

Optional Color tool, hue/saturation tool.

The two tools are adjusted using the color itself as the basis for classification.

Optional color is generally used for fine-tuning, manufacturing color bias.

Hue/saturation tools are generally used to significantly adjust the color characteristics.

　By Brightness score:

Color Balance tool.

The color balance tool is based on the high light, shadow and midtones, then adjusts separately.

For example, if you want to increase the cyan in the high light, then choose the high light-cyan.

　divided by subjective intention :

Soft light blending mode, color blending mode, hue blending mode.

These tools are based on the user's subjective definition of color changes in color traits.

　Divided by color area:

Curve tool.

This tool does not accurately adjust color, but it can affect the general trend of color.

For example, the blue channel is bright, then can let the picture overall partial blue.

With the above such a general classification, you are in the color adjustment, the idea will be a lot clearer.

Am I going to change the overall color state, or is it for a color? or to change the color of an exposure range or to change the overall color trend of the picture?

May be my understanding of color is too bad, the above paragraph read from the beginning, it seems to understand, and seems to have nothing to understand, so I would like to understand the way to say how the use of these tools, when to use, the following for personal understanding, if there is a large discrepancy, but also please forgive me.

First, if you want to adjust a color, use hue/saturation, optional color, such as the following figure:

If you want to adjust the yellow light color in the picture to other colors, you need to use hue/saturation or optional color tools, respectively, as follows

Can adjust the hue, the details of some differences, roughly speaking, the choice of color can only adjust a single hue, hue/full degree can not be adjusted to adjust a single hue can also adjust the whole map, adjust the fullness and lightness

In contrast, if a curve wants to modify a single package, it requires relatively complex steps, as follows

After the above curve adjustment, the result color is

The color balance has nothing to do with it.

It turns out that there's no change.

So

Second, the color balance and curve is more used for large environmental palette, rather than a hue, as follows

The difference between the two, roughly speaking, is the color balance can be the shadow of the picture, the middle of high, high light to color, the curve can also be adjusted brightness, like the top of these two graphs, the curve can be called gray feeling, color balance is not, because it can not adjust brightness, as follows (just a simple tune, so some Xu difference)

The curves are powerful, but more complex.

Note: The curve can be done by the color scale.

Conclusion:

First, the hue: If you want to adjust the hue of a certain color, use hue/saturation, optional color

Second, tonal: color balance and curve more is used for large environment palette

Instance action:

First, the Japanese department

Idea: I want to make the picture how to show it,

Don't be too bright (reduce satiety),

Don't be too clear (increase brightness),

Overall tonal green (color balance or curve adjustment of the whole picture)

1. Curve Brightening

2. Reduce fullness and increase the degree of visibility, the picture will have a gray feeling

3. Color Balance or curve tone

The above is the PS hue saturation/optional color/color balance/curve of the difference and the use of methods, I hope to bring help!

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