Selective Colouring: How to use it
July 16, 2008
This Selective Colouring Tutorial will explain how to enhance a select, specific colour(s) on each individual photograph.
You can alter the colours in your image by deepening them, altering the actual colour to something else, dulling them etc. You can do pretty much anything with them. In Photoshop it’s very easy to use Selective Colouring on any image, it’s just knowing how!
Below I have attempted to explain what tool to use and the easiest way of using it. If however you struggle and would like some help, please do leave a comment below or contact us.
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Selective Colouring Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Once that’s done, go into -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color…
- So, at the moment you should have the Selective Coloring window open, click here, you’ll see that I’ve highlighted certain settings in Red, make sure your settings are exactly the same
- Once that’s done, you’ll see at the top of the window there’s a ‘Colors’ drop down menu, if you click on it, you’ll see a this.
- If you’ve got a lot of Green in your photograph, and you want to change the type of green it is, then you hit the ‘Colors’ drop down menu I was showing you before and select Green. Then below you’ll see four scroll bars, all you need to do is move them to the left or right, play around with the settings.
- The same goes for all the other colours in the drop down menu.
- The same goes for all the other colours in the drop down menu. The White, Grey & Black pretty much change the effect on every image, so it’s always good to have a play with those. Yellow also changes Green, and Red changes not only red, but orange/yellow. The only way to be sure is to try it out yourself and see what happens.
- Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Selective Colouring Tutorial.
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