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Now that you have been introduced to this topic of color correction by the
numbers, what I want you to do is apply what we know to an image. Here you can
see I have two documents open: numbers. psd and robyn.psd. I have numbers.psd
just to illustrate what we are going to try to do.
What we are going to try to do is have our cyan, that's 1/3 to 1/5 of our
magenta or yellow, magenta and yellow are close, yellow is always higher. We
turned on that top layer, Group 1; there we can see some good amount. Let's say
cyan is 10, magenta is 30, yellow 32. Well, let's go ahead and apply that logic
to this photograph of robyn.psd here. I'll press F to go to full-screen view mode.
I'll grab the Eyedropper tool by pressing the I key on the keyboard. Now when
I do that, it will activate this Eyedropper point that I have already set.
Now if that point isn't there, all that I need to do is hold down the Shift key
and then click to add a point. To remove a point, you will hold down the Shift
key and click-and-drag it off the photograph. Next thing you want to do is open up your
Info palette. If yours isn't open, you can navigate to Window, and then choose
Info or the F8 key. Well, now that the Info palette is open, you can see that
my point 1 has already been changed to these CMYK values. You can change those
by clicking on the Eyedropper icon and changing it from RGB down to CMYK.
Now one of the things that I notice here is that my magenta is much higher than
my yellow. That is not a good thing. So I'm going to go ahead and add some
yellow to this image and I'll do that by clicking on the Curves icon. Next what
I'm going to do is press Option+5 on a Mac, Alt+5 on a PC in order to navigate
to the blue channel. This is where we can add blue or add yellow.
So I'll click on the Target Adjustment tool, hover over this little point. What
I want to do is add yellow, so I'm going to click-and-drag down and I'm going
to watch my points. I'm looking to make sure that this yellow is higher than my
magenta. Well, so far so good, how about our cyan?
Now our cyan is currently at 11 %, three times 11 is 33, five times 11 is 55.
So our cyan is much too high, right? There is something there; there is a
problem with that channel. So we navigate back to our Red-cyan channel. Now
with this Target Adjustment tool, we will then hover over this point and we are
going to click-and-drag in order to reduce some of that.
Now what we are looking to do is to try to get this in range, three times 6 is
18, five times 6 is 30. Okay, yeah. Well, that fits in the range, although now
my yellow dropped down a bit. Back to the Yellow channel. In order to access
the Yellow channel, do you remember that shortcut to go to that Blue-
yellow channel? Well, it's Option+5 on the Mac, Alt+5 on a PC. You can also always
select the channels from the pulldown menu. I need a little bit more yellow,
so I'll click-and-drag down. Now this image is in a really good place.
It is color correct. Let's go ahead and click off the eye icon
for a second. Here is our before, here is the after. This image looks so much
better and those numbers fall right within this recipe that we talked about in
the previous movie. Now this is great because our skin is going
to look good and in addition, the rest of the image is going to look good. What
we have done here is we have color corrected our image based on a skin
tone. We are going to prioritize the skin because
in people photographs and in retouching, that is incredibly important,
right? Now that we have that looking good, the rest of the image will look good
as well.