Photoshop® CS5 Bible

Chapter 13. Lighting and Color Adjustments

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Adjusting lighting and exposure

• Changing color balance

• Applying lens filter effects to photos

• Making specific color and tone adjustments to images

• Creating custom black and white photos

• Making colors pop out of images

• Adjusting levels in images to restore detail

The most common edit that you will perform on photos is correcting the lighting and color. Photoshop provides a number tools that correct the color and lighting in different ways. As you become more familiar with these tools, you can adjust problems in images such as overexposure, underexposure, and color casts. You also can make minute adjustments to images that make a big difference in the overall appearance.

This chapter discusses most of the tools available in the Image

Note

Remember that most of the techniques you learn in this chapter can be applied as an Adjustment layer. That means you can use a selection to create the Adjustment layer and then apply the color adjustments only to that specific area of the image. This allows you to be much more aggressive with the changes you make because you aren't modifying the rest of the image.

Applying Quick Adjustments to Light and Color

Photoshop provides several tools that allow you to make quick adjustments to the lighting and color in images. In the background, these tools are simply adjusting the level values in the color channels ...