Overview
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Explore the tools, techniques, and creative possibilities of Lab Color in Photoshop. Learn how to enhance and transform images with Lab adjustments and Photoshop blending modes.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- The creative power of Lab
- Color spaces and gamuts
- The properties of Lab in Photoshop
- Converting to Lab
- Exercise files and software download
- Using a Lab all-channel equalization
- Applying a curve to the L-channel
- Applying a curve to the A and B channels
- Selective application of a curve
- Selective sharpening with the L-channel
- Lab inversions and L-channel inversions
- Inverting the A channel
- Inverting the B channel and AB-channels
- Adjusting contrast with a curve
- Working with the exclusion blending mode
- Per-channel equalizations
- The power of opacity
- Selective equalizations
- Clouds in landscapes and seascapes
- Faces: Eyes and lips
- Installing Harold's Lab action
- Using Harold's Lab action
- Lab meets Andy Warhol
- Lab adjustments and blending modes
- Making Lab patterns
- Creative Lab in your workflow
