Color Corrections Using Photoshop CS3
Sometimes when you take your photos the composition is great but the colors just don’t seem to pop.
In Adobe Photoshop CS3 there are many ways to bring the color out in your photos. In this photo I made several corrections First I removed elements that I didn’t want and then I adjusted the colors. When making adjustments have the preview selected that way when you make your adjustments its easy to switch back and forth between the original photo and the adjustments you made before committing to the corrections.
• I used the clone tool to remove the darkened upper corners. (Alt Click) to select an area close to where I wanted to make the corrections, I used small horizontal strokes to cover the spots; I then used the same technique to remove the sunspots.
• Next I used Image > adjustments> selective colors to adjust the greens, reds, and blues.
• Next I used Image > adjustments> Hue/Saturation. I increased the saturation but left the hue and lightness alone.
This brought out the deep red of the rocks and the bright greens of the plants. When adjusting photo colors you want to keep objects looking a natural as possible.
Play with your photos and different ways to make the adjustments to get various effects and as always save your photos under different file names so that you preserve the original photo.
A new feature that CS3 has along with the undo feature is the step backward feature which will let you undo any changes that you don’t like.
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