Intensifying colors

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John_Beattie
Dec 21, 2008
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Is there any way to modify colored areas of a photo without affecting everything else in the photo? For example, if there is a pale sunset and you want to enhance the colors, how do you do that without turning everything else a shade of pink? Selecting "Shadows", "Midtones" or "Highlights" in Color Balance does not really produce a satisfactory solution and using a lasso or marquee tool produces very obvious artificial divisions of color. Any help much appreciated.

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Jim
Dec 21, 2008
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Is there any way to modify colored areas of a photo without affecting everything else in the photo? For example, if there is a pale sunset and you want to enhance the colors, how do you do that without turning everything else a shade of pink? Selecting "Shadows", "Midtones" or "Highlights" in Color Balance does not really produce a satisfactory solution and using a lasso or marquee tool produces very obvious artificial divisions of color. Any help much appreciated.

Make a selection and increase the saturation of the selection. Jim
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Robert_Barnett
Dec 21, 2008
In CS4 apply a saturation adjustment layer and use the vibrance slider. This only affects low saturation colors.

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Wolf_Eilers
Dec 21, 2008
Colour Range to select the colours of interest followed by a Vibrance or Saturation adjustment layer.

It has been said that to learn Ps is really to learn about selections.
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Mark_Reynolds
Dec 21, 2008
In addition both Selective Color and Hue/saturation allow you without direct masking to confine your edits to specific ranges of colour. In a great deal of cases, you will find that its possible to use these tools to boost the areas you want, without the generation of masks.

If you use adjustment layers, this has the advantage that any changes you make to the base pixels will be automatically reflected without any alteration needed to your color work.

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