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OK, continuing on with learning how to make good selections in Photoshop,
I would like to double click on the Chapter 4 folder here in Bridge.
This time go in to the color range selections folder, double click on this flower.TIF image,
this is also a stock image, courtesy of photospin.com. I am going to hide the Layers palette for
now, zoom in some by pressing Command+ or Ctrl+ in Windows in order
to fill my screen here, in Maximized View Mode here.
So we have our image, and what I would like to do here with this close up of this flower
is to actually select all of the yellow areas here in the center; the
ones that are in focus here in the front, and the ones that are out of focus in the
back. Select all of these areas in here, and change
them to more of a reddish color. So there is a lot of different areas of yellow,
orange, and dark orange. I would like to select all of that, throughout
the image, using Color Range. So to do so, you go into the Select menu,
choose Color Range, and that brings up this dialog box.
Now there's a lot to this dialog box; off to the right we have these Eyedropper tools,
and this is really what are you using to select the colors within the image that
you want to create a selection out of. So we are going to start out with the Eyedropper
tool, which is off to the left here. With the Eyedropper tool selected, I am going
to click in the area of the image that I would like to start my selection with.
So I am going to click right here, in just the basic mid level orangish-yellow.
So we have the basics of our selection. We can add to that and reach a little bit
further into this Color Range by choosing the Add to Eyedropper.
Clicking in here. I am going to click on say a lighter yellow
area to add that to the selection, and I am going to click on a darker orangish
area to add that. I am going to click on this sort of muted
yellow area; just clicking all around until my preview here in this little mask
that we are seeing in the dialog box is starting to encompass all of the area within.
You can see it's starting to spread out pretty good, so we are getting the center of the
image here that we want to change. Now we also have this Fuzziness slider up
here. This controls how much contrast or how much
softness. If you move it to the left, you are getting
nice sharp contrasty edges based on the Color Range that we just chose with
the Eyedroppers. If we move to the right, we are getting further
and further into our image, you can see we are getting softer and softer.
So I am going to leave it right at about there. It's reaching it a little bit too far, maybe
right around there. You can see some areas creeping in here.
We will click OK, and we will see what happens. OK, looks like we made a pretty good selection.
We reached in just far enough to get all this area and these areas in the background that
are out of focus. These little, little small tiny, little pixelated
dots we are seeing, those are really, really small,
so they are probably not going to make a huge difference when we go about editing the color
in this image. Now what I would like to do is actually change
the color of these areas, just like we did in the last movie,
where I changed the eye color in the woman's eyes, I am actually going to use a Hue/Saturation
Adjustment layer. So now clicking on the icon to display the
Layers panel and then choosing Hue/Saturation from the Adjustment layer icon,
at the bottom of the palette, bringing that up, what happens is it creates a Layer Mask
based on the Color Range selection. White reveals, black conceals, that means
all of these white areas in the mask, which are what we just saw selected,
are going to be affected by the adjustment and everything else is not.
So what I am going to do now is move the Hue slider to the left, to get more of a darker
orangish or reddish color, and apply that to my selections, and see it
being applied throughout. I can actually lower the Saturation a bit
to make it a little bit more lifelike.
Something like that, looking pretty good. We will click OK, and we will hide the Layers
palette, and just take a look at what we did throughout
our image, and this is looking pretty good. Again, if you wanted to go in here and edit
this some, you could select a Brush, make a nice soft brush, lower its Opacity,
and maybe paint in a little bit over here, in order to either bring in more of the red,
or to hide some of the areas where we don't like the way it looks.
There are a couple of different editing things you can do around here,
it's a little bit funky, but that overall looks pretty good to me.
So pretty quick and easy way to edit color, specific areas of an image using a Color Range
selection.