Level 2 Plus

Lesson 14

Color
Variations

This is part 2 of color corrections. The first part was covered in Lesson #13.

Introduction

In this lesson, we will show you some more techniques that will help modify the colors in your images. You will learn how to increase or decrease the levels of individual colors in the shadows, mid-tones & highlights.

Here is our original image without any color changes.

Here is our image after the color changes we made in Lesson #13.

[ Enhance ]

From the next menu, click:

[ Adjust Color ]

From the final menu, click:

[ Color Variations ]

The “Primary Colors” are:

1.      Red

2.      Green

3.      Blue

The “Secondary Colors” are:

1.      Cyan

2.      Magenta

3.      Yellow

2. If you add Cyan        - you subtract Red

3. If you add Green       - you subtract Magenta

4. If you add Magenta   - you subtract Green

5. If you add Blue         - you subtract Yellow

6. If you add Yellow      - you subtract Blue

There are 3 areas of adjustment:

1.      The Tonal Zone

2.      The Amount of Adjustment

3.      The Color to Adjust

[ Midtones ]

Click on:

[ Decrease Blue ]

Note: There is no yellow control. But, decreasing blue has the same effect as increasing yellow – see “The Rules of Color” above.

[ Shadows ]

Click on:

[ Decrease Blue ]

Note: There is no yellow control. But, decreasing blue has the same effect as increasing yellow – see “The Rules of Color” above.

Set the “Tonal Zone” to:

[ Highlights ]

Click on:

[ Decrease Blue ]

Note: There is no yellow control. But, decreasing blue has the same effect as increasing yellow – see “The Rules of Color” above.

Set the “Tonal Zone” to:

[ Midtones ]

Click on:

[ Increase Red ]

Set the “Tonal Zone” to:

[ Midtones ]

Click on:

[ Darken ]

To accept the color changes, click on:

[ OK ]

Here is our final color adjusted image.

Here are the before and after images.

The left panel shows the original image before we made any of the color changes in the last lesson.

The right pane shows the image after the color changes made in this lesson and the last lesson.

Summary

In this lesson, we provided you with more techniques to help modify the colors in your images. We covered increasing and decreasing individual colors in the shadows, mid-tones & highlights.