Color Correction

Recover the detail of the image

Direct images from camera misses the detail of the image in it. In Photoshop CS5, we can recover back those details of the image using the HDR Toning feature. This feature allows the user to apply HDR like tone mapping to single image. Steps to follow are pretty simple: After opening image in Photoshop, go to Image > Adjustment> HDR Toning. You can see the preview of the change in the image already when the dialog box appears. As per the requirement, glow, tone and detail, color and toning curves & histogram can be adjusted. Edge Glow helps to regain bright areas settings. The radius value sets the size of the bright areas and the strength sets the distance required

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Easy technique to recolor products in Photoshop

With the help of Recolor Tool in Photoshop, we can change the color of the product images to any color of the user’s choice in just a few clicks. All one needs to do is open file in Photoshop and go to Image > Adjustment > Replace Color. In the replace color palette, user can select the colors of part of the image with the help of the eye dropper tool. Add to sample, eye dropper tool helps the user to select more than one color at a time. Once the user has selected all the required colors of the image, now s/he can now adjust the value of the color to the desired one through the adjusting the hue,

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Removing colorcast from images

            Image Source: Arnoldmed Sometimes due to the background color, lightning or camera settings, the images get some sort of color cast. As you can see in the example file above, when this image is cutout and placed in different background then the cyan color cast is pretty disturbing to the product. In such case when one color disturbs the color balance of the product, one of the simplest ways to fix it, is through hue and saturation tool in Photoshop. You can make a copy of the original image layer, select the product path and go to Image adjustment > Hue and saturation. Then simply choose the cyan color in the hue/saturation palette and

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Color correction using Selective color option

                  Image Source: Pointofsports Similar to our first article, in this category also we are looking at different tool which helps to remove the unnecessary colors from the image after we remove background from it. As shown in the example above, you can see that the portrait of the lady when cutout from the background leaves a green color at the edge of the cutout lady. In order to remove this, we can use selective color option in Photoshop. First select the edges of the lady where the green color is appearing and apply feather with 0.5 – 0.8 value. Then go to Image > Adjustment > Selective Color. Since the green

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