Overview
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This comprehensive course about color focuses on using Photoshop to manage, change, and edit color.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- How to use the exercise files
- Define color terms
- Use the color wheel to understand color relationships
- Create color themes
- Create a color theme from an image
- Work with the Color Picker
- The role of foreground and background colors
- Choose sample colors
- Manage and share swatches
- Work with transparency
- Color channels
- Additive and subtractive color
- RGB
- CMYK
- Lab
- Indexed
- Grayscale
- Duotone
- Bitmap
- An overview of color management
- Use the Histogram panel
- Use the Info panel
- 8-bit and 16-bit images
- Levels
- Set the black-and-white point
- Auto adjustments
- Curves
- Color correction
- Create a signature color with selective saturation
- Desaturate to create a nostalgic image
- Build density in a sky
- Save a flat sky
- Design with Spot Color
- Creative toning with a gradient map
- Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette
- Replace colors
- Create a consistent look with color lookup tables and layer effects
- Match color
- Combine color and black and white
- Convert color to high-contrast black and white
- Sepia tone and split tone
- Work with line art
- Hand color an image
- Infrared
- Next steps
