Color Correcting and Sharpening in Photoshop

A quick tutorial for saturating pictures, setting black and white points, sharpening, and generally touching up an image in Photoshop.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• color
• colour
• correcting
• sharpen
• unsharpen
• mask
• curves
• photoshop
• lab
• mode
• rgb
• channels
• stock
• touchups

[Naturally00Me]

I just finished adjusting in the Lab mode, and when I went to switch over to RGB mode, it tells me "Changing modes will discard an adjustment layer, change mode anyway?" choices are flatten/cancel/or oaky? is it supposed to flatten image or not? Does any one else get this message? It just may as well just carry over to RGB mode = flattened image eh? =)

[DigitalAssassin]

@Naturally00Me Don't flatten -- it's a very very rare occasion that not flattening will cause problems (some semi-transparent layers can alter their colours very slightly, for instance).  99% of the time you just just switch with no problems.

[jrodriguez4820]

thanks a lot, i really liked this tutorial, great explanation of how things work in terms i can actually understand. Just one question though, is there any draw back to finding the black and white points before doing the color correction in Lab Color, or is there a particular reason why you did the black and white points last?

[DigitalAssassin]

@jrodriguez4820 It's actually better to do black/white points first, so if you choose a non-neutral colour they won't affect your colour correction. Your way is better!

[RainbowCproductions]

help, when i go back to rgb color mode the color correction goes away, and if i stay in lab color i cant save the picture as jpeg, wtf do i do??

[DigitalAssassin]

@RainbowCproductions If you've hit 'okay' in the Levels Dialogue Box in Lab Colour Mode, the settings will carry over to RGB mode. You won't lose any colour correction!

[shellybirdy]

very interesting thanks

[smalltownhappy]

I haven't tried your tips yet, but just watching it I have to say it was helpful. thank you for sharing !

[babablacksheep909]

can this be applied with landscapes pictures?

[PKpumped]

@mroneniceguy the way I do it is to first adjust the highlights midtones and shadows then I go back and screen the original image back over the adjusted image

[dohead123456]

If you took out all your ums and pauses and stuttering, you could shorten this down to about 1 minute.

[sisuhall222]

Thank you, very easy to understand.

[benjie1234us]

thanks for uploading, it's very informative.

[NewAgeDirector]

Great video keep up the good work.

[Revanastasia]

Brilliant! I've tried to search many tutes, but your video is very helpful!

[XxThuBxiLLaxX]

thank U .