Choosing the Right Adjustment for Color Correction

Photoshop CS4 provides dozens of orders for adjustment
color correction option which is most appropriate.

Auto Color
To balance the colors mean value and set
color tonal balance (as described earlier).
This feature is very powerful for color correction.

Brightness / Contrast
Adjustment is how it works more to regulate tonal
compared to set the color. Therefore, this facility is not appropriate
for color correction.
Preset Level adjust the tonal color of the Green Channel.
Level
Although the primary function is to correct level of light on the
image, but if you work for RGB Color Mode and
CMYK to prepare images for printing system
Level Offset and color printers are very useful. In this case
specifically to perform color correction on the Channel.
Set the Curve on Channel Red
Curve
As with Level, Curve is also useful for
color correction on Channel Colors. Compared with Level, Curve
often more effective.

Exposure
It's not an option to do the color correction, but
(As it were) set the aperture on the camera alone.
Vibrance
Is a new feature in Photoshop CS4 adjustment. How it works
simple, the approach control color saturation
neutral with saturated himself.

Hue / Saturation
It is a very powerful feature for color correction. With
feature, you can create new shades
image you are working on. He has three sliders:

  Hue, to create new shades in the image.
  Saturation, to adjust the color density.
  Lightness, to adjust the brightness of the color darker image.
different after the Hue and Saturation changed her.

Color Balance
Through this tool you can set highlight, midtone, and shadow
the processed image. Color Balance With this, you can also
image processing to obtain special effects. Color
Balance also provides colors Cyan, Red, Magenta,

Yellow, and Blue as a counterweight so that you can set
intensity of each color.
Figure 2-14: Image originally before changing the Color Balance.
Figure 2-15: Once the color is directed to a color kemerahmerahan.

Photo Filters
This is actually more likely than the color adjustment
filter. The aim is to give the impression of the object image into
direction of color or a certain situation. For example, in order to impress the object image
cool or cold, then the image was given a blue filter, so impressed
warm, then given a red filter, and so on.

In addition to the color filter option, you can also adjust the darkness
color filter it by dragging the slider or type value
particular.

Black and White
This is a feature to create a color photo to black,
but not to convert them into greyscale. Black color
values ​​obtained with the white color elements compose Red,
Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Magenta
The advantage when using this feature, the value of the color content
photos are not removed as if converted. So, you
can play a specific color in the photo to give
black color. For example, a blue color elements derived intensity
so when the display to black and white, then darkness
will decrease.
Black & White with a certain color trends. Well, this is certainly
in contrast to the use of a direct tendency Photo Filters
color on a particular color, but after image
shown in black and white, it would appear that the third color
Tint or tendency termed soft colors.
Well, Tint you can select by clicking on Tint box so
the left will appear alias tick tick,
're on the right is a box containing the sample
color. If you click on it, a dialog box will appear Select Target
Color is none other than the Color Picker dialog box.

Channel Mixer
Color correction was conducted through a particular color channel. In
which in certain cases, if you find there is
channel were damaged in an image, now, through this feature
repairs can be made.

In the Channel Mixer Channel you can choose which
that needs to be corrected.

Invert
Facility to reverse the image color as the negative film.
This adjustment without using dialog boxes and palettes
own. Invert not a tool for color correction.

Posterize
Posterize is a means to simplify the colors to
obtained effects such as posters printed (screen printing).
The lower the position of the slider, the more clearly the difference between a
part of the color to the color of the other as if nothing happened gradation
discoloration. Increasing the level of the slider values
, the increasing fineness of gradation.