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Elements 3.0 Plus |
Level 2 Plus |
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Lesson 13
Color
Hue / Saturation |
This is part 1 of color corrections.
The second part will be covered in
the Lesson 14. |
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Introduction |
In this lesson, we will introduce
you to the process of modifying the
colors in your image. You will use
the “Hue/Saturation” function
to make the adjustments. First you
will learn to assess the colors in
your image; then you will learn how
to change your image as desired. |
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Note: |
The correction of this image is for
demonstration purposes only.
We have exaggerated the color
corrections for illustration
purposes. |
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Step #1: Select Image |
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We have selected this image of a
cave.
We hope to illustrate how you can
bring out, and exaggerate, the
colors in your image. |
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Step #2: Hue/Saturation |
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From the Main menu, click:
[ Enhance ]
From the next menu, click:
[ Adjust Color ]
From the final menu, click:
[ Adjust Hue/Saturation ] |
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Step #3:
Hue/Saturation
Main Screen |
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We now come to the
“Hue/Saturation” main screen.
In the “Edit Window” it
reads:
[ Master ]
This tells us that all color
channels will be affected by
any changes. |
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Step #4:
Individual Color Changes |
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If we go to the “Edit Window”
& click the drop down menu, we see
that we can select any color
for individual adjustment. |
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Step #5:
Assess Red |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Red ]
Then move the “Saturation”
slider all the way to the right - to
100%
This shows us how much red
is hidden in the image.
Now we return the “Saturation”
slider to 0% |
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Step #6:
Assess Yellow |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Yellow ]
Then move the “Saturation”
slider all the way to the right - to
100%
This shows us how much yellow
is hidden in the image.
Now we return the “Saturation”
slider to 0% |
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Step #7: Hue
to Right |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Master ]
Then move the “Hue” slider to
the right - to +32
This shows us how moving the
“Hue” slider to the right
affects our image.
Now we return the “Hue”
slider to 0% |
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Step #8:
Hue To Left |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Master ]
Then move the “Hue” slider to
the left - to -22
This shows us how moving the
“Hue” slider to the left affects
our image.
Now we return the “Hue”
slider to 0% |
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Step #9:
Adjust Reds |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Red ]
We set the “Hue” slider to
-25
We set the “Saturation”
slider to 27% |
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Step #10:
Adjust Yellows |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Yellow ]
We set the “Hue” slider to
-17
We set the “Saturation”
slider to 40% |
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Step #11:
Adjust Master |
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From the “Edit Window”,
select:
[ Master ]
We set the “Saturation”
slider to 40%
We set the “Lightness” slider
to +2 |
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Step #12:
Final Image |
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When we clicked:
[ OK ]
Now we have our image with the color
changes we made. |
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Step #13:
Comparison |
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Here is a comparison of the before
and after images.
Don’t forget, we have exaggerated
the color changes for illustration
purposes.
Hold on. We’re
not done. We’re going to punch up
the colors even more in the next
lesson. |
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Summary |
In this lesson, we introduced the
process of modifying the colors in
an image. We used the
“Hue/Saturation” function to
make adjustments. First we learned
to assess the colors in our image;
then we learned how to implement the
desired changes. |
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