Photoshop Color Strategies
Photoshop Color Strategies will help you take your color skills to the next level.
True mastery of color requires not only knowing how to use the various color tools available to you, but also knowing how to choose between them, when to apply them, and why to apply them to achieve specific color effects.
You'll learn to isolate the three essential components of color (luminosity, hue, and saturation) and control them with unprecedented precision.
You'll learn about important optical effects that affect the way you and your viewers see color and learn to put them to work for you.
You'll learn new ways of thinking about color that will help you see and produce a wide variety of color effects.
You'll discover strategies for identifying and creating successful color palettes. You can combine all of this knowledge to craft your own unique artistic signature style.
Put the unprecedented power and precision of digital color to work for you and your images now.
Topics covered include...
1 Color R/Evolution
We've never had this kind of control before
2 Color is Black and White
Photoshop makes color from black and white
3 Memory
How accurate is your color memory ?
4 Optical Effects
Context affects how you see color
5 Color Types
Learn to identify 3 types of color
6 Successful palettes
Learn how most successful palettes work
7 Association
Make your color more powerful with psychology
8 Side-By-Side
View color side-by-side to see it better
9 Infinite Variations
You can transform color infinitely
10 Color Tool Survey
Identify go to, exotic, and redundant tools
11 Editing Strategy
Use a non-destructive flexible workflow
12 Blend Modes
Remove side-effects and target adjustments
13 Selectivity
Make sophisticated selections quickly
14 Light Filled
3 Ways to make image seem full of light
15 Increase or Decrease Luminosity
Make colors lighter or darker
16 Reduce Hue Contrast
Make colors relate more strongly with hue
17 Increase Hue Contrast
Make colors appear more varied
18 Reduce Saturation
Make colors less intense selectively
19 Increase Saturation
Make colors more intense selectively
20 Neutrals
Make colors optically neutral
21 Atmospheric Perspective
Use HSL to make 2D images seem more 3D
22 Night
Turn day into night
23 Inversion
Reverse luminosity or hue
24 Transpose Natural Color
Apply color from one image to another
25 Transpose Synthetic Color
Choose colors to apply to an image
And much more!
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