Instead, it reduces the effect of the command as a whole. Do not construe this to mean that Opacity lessens any specifi c option applied in the Variations dialog box. So 75 percent gives the modifi ed image the edge, with 25 percent of the original image showing through. A value of 100 percent favors the modifi ed image entirely. If you think of the modifi ed, post-Variations image as one ingredient and the original image as another, Opacity determines how much of each image goes into the fi nal blend. The Opacity value acts as an ingredient mixer. Reduce the Opacity value to 75 percent, as pictured in Figure 3-12. This brings up the diminutive Fade dialog box. Fortunately, Photoshop lets you reduce the impact of the most recent command you applied using the Fade command.Ĭhoose Edit -> Fade Variations or press Ctrl+Shift+F (Command-Shift-F on the Mac). After all, little boys need some warmth in their faces. Although the harsh orange color cast has been effi ciently zapped, I think we've gone a little overboard. And sure enough, after clicking OK, it becomes evident that I didn't quite hit the bull's eye. Well, as I said, it's hard to judge the accuracy of your color modifi cations from dinky thumbnails. Click the OK button or press Enter or Return to exit the dialog box and apply your changes. It's hard to judge for sure from a bunch of dinky thumbnails, but the Current Pick image appears more or less on target. (The current Fine/Coarse setting, specified in Step 8, is fine for this step.) Click Less Saturation to leech away colors and make them slightly grayer. Photoshop replaces the thumbnails in the center and right portions of the dialog box with three new ones, all visible in Figure 3-11.Ĭurrently, the colors in the image are a bit too vivid. To display the Variations command's saturation controls, select the Saturation radio button near the top of the dialog box. So much for the hue and luminosity, now on to saturation. Because you changed the intensity setting in Step 8, Photoshop's color adjustment is more subtle than in earlier steps. To remove yellow, click the complementary thumbnail, More Blue.
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The shadows and highlights remain untouched, which helps to avoid clipping.Īfter all these wonderful changes, the image remains a bit too yellow, particularly in the table, the background, and the skin tones. Therefore, clicking the Lighter thumbnail is like raising the gamma value in the Levels dialog box (see Step 9 of "Adjusting Brightness Levels," page 45 in the book).
Because the Midtones radio button is active ( Step 4), this adjustment affects only the midtone values. So click the Lighter thumbnail to make the image lighter. (PC or Mac, doesn't matter.) This reduces the intensity of the next step.Īt this point, the image strikes me as a wee bit dark. Move the Fine/Coarse slider triangle one tick mark to the left. continues from previous page Fixing a Color Cast with Photoshop CS2