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in this video I'm going to show you how , to make colors pop in Photo shop hi , welcome back tithe Photo shop training , Channel I'm Mrs. Ramirez in this video , I'm gonna show you how to make colors , pop in Photocopy're going to learn , five different techniques that are gonna , show you how to make color stand out , from one another we're gonna use , techniques ranging from adding , saturation and vibrancy a photo to , using complimentary colors to make color , stand out , these techniques should help you tackle , any situation that you may come across , in your projects also keep in mind that , the examples that I'm going to show are , extreme but when you're working with , your images remember to use a subtle , approach okay let's get started we're , gonna work with this image as you can , see this image is not highly saturated , in one way of enhancing this image would , be to make the colors pop you can of , course create new hue and saturation , adjustment layer and increase the , saturation to make the colors pop but , this is not one of my favorite methods , to make colors pop I actually like using , the vibrancy adjustment layer instead , this adjustment layer also has the , saturation slider and the vibrancy , slide rand I know that you may not know , the difference is what I'll do in this , tutorial is give you a brief explanation , but if you're interested in an in-depth , tutorial then I do have a tutorial on , that and I'll post a link to it right , below in the description but anyway , vibrancy and saturation both add , saturation to an image saturation simply , bumps the saturation of all pixels , equally it just increases saturation , vibrancy on the other hand protects , already saturated pixel sin skin tones , so when I increase vibrancy notice that , the effect is not as strong as , saturation and it's more pleasing to the , eye so increasing vibrancy is what I , recommend start with to make colors pop , in a photo if I get to ascertain point , and I feel that Is till need to make the , colors pop even further I can also add , the saturation adjustment to that but , keep the saturation adjustment subtle , another thing that can do is target , specific colors that increase the , saturation of those colors can do that , in one of two ways I could use a hue and , saturation adjustment layer for that and , click on this icon , then hove rover the color that you want , to make pop in this case address click , and drag to the right and notice that , increases the saturationPhotoshop , automatically selects the color from the , drop-down in this case the color that I , selected is found in the Reds and you , can confirm that by looking at the , gradient right here right below the , properties panel could also click on , the leaves for example and increase the , saturation at undoes and notice that , greens were selected so this is a way of , selectively targeting colors to pop in , Photo shop the second method is by , right-clicking on a layer and converting , it into as mart object then applying the , Camera Raw filter from the filter menu , from here we also have the vibrancy , slide rand the saturation slider we also , have access to the clarity slider which , increases contrast and mid-tone sand , that also can help you make your colors , pop and we even have access to the hue , saturation lightness tabs where we can , control those elements with these , sliders , notice that in saturation we have access , to eight different sliders I'm going to , press for now then I'm going to , enable the hue and saturation adjustment , layer and show you that here we only , have access to six different colors so , the Camera Raw filter gives us access to , more color sand by the way when you're , working with a smart object you are , working on destructively which means , that you can always come back and edit , the changes in a smart object you can , double click on the label to bring back , that specific filter in this case the , Camera Raw filter so I can go back into , hue saturation luminescent I can , adjust those colors I can increase the , saturation of the oranges and the Greens , just as Id id before and I can control , the dominance to make that orange pop , even more and I can do the same thing , with the greens or any other color of , course I can press OK and this is what , it looks like without any adjustments , and with adjustments so these are two , different techniques that you can use to , make your colors pop in a photo and I , have three more for you the next one is , going to be Little different we're , gonna work with this image here and as , you can see this image is already highly , saturated , but her shirt is not really popping and , sure I could create a hue and saturation , adjustment layer select yellow sand , increase the saturation and that would , increase the saturation of the shirt but , I want to show you an alternate , technique that you can use so that you , get different results so I'm going to , click on the quick selection too land , I'm going to click and drag and I'm just , gonna roughly make a selection it , dozen't have to be perfect'm just , worried about the shirt for now I'm , going to subtract from this election , once I get a good enough selection so at , this point I feel like the selection is , good enough I'gonna hold alt option on , the Mac click and drag to subtract from , the selection sou'll now I'm , subtracting the areas that are not part , of the shirt like her arms or fingers , and in a moment'm gonna go and move up , into the shoulder are aright about here , and move that away and then this area , here and again I'm not gonna spend too , much time fine-tuning the selection , because it's not the point of the , tutorial but of course in your images , you might want to spend a little more , time fine-tuning the selections but , anyway now that have this selection , active I'm going to select the , eyedropper tool and I'm just going to , select any color found on there it , really dozen't matter which color it is , so Have that color selected then I'm , going to create a solid color adjustment , layer which is going to create a solid , color based on the color that I selected , the color of our shirt then I can change , the blending mode to soft light and you , can see how doing so makes that color , pop so this is another method you can , use to make the colors pop in your image , selecting soft light as the blending , mode or even overlay in a lot of cases , overlays a little too much you can of , course reduce the opacity of the layer , if you want to and as I mentioned before , spend more time fine-tuning the , selection so that it looks more , realistic we'vie been using methods that , include increasing saturation contrast , or ATAR giving a specific color to make , it stand out more what we're gonna do , now is look at complementary colors and , use color theory to make colors pop in , an image so we're gonna work with this , image here and you can see that the , background is green and that the , foreground is blue and we want to make , the colors pop even more the shirt is , already highly saturated so one way of , making it pop is by using come , man three colors and let me show you , what I mean by that I'm going to open my , browser and I am an Adobe color CC's , website you can find it at color dot , Adobe com that website there color dot , adobe.com and this website allows you to , select different color theories and move , these handles to get different color , swatches , if you select complementary you'll get , complementary colors if I click and drag , any one of these points for example to , the green area because the background of , the image that we we reworking with was , green you'll see that the opposite color , is red when complementary colors are put , side by side they tend to pop so we want , to make this shirt pop you need to , change the color tithe complementary , color or the background so that it , stands out so what I'm going to do is , create hue and saturation adjustment , layer click on this icon then hold ctr , command on the Mac click and drag to , change the color of the shirt and if I , change the color to red you will see , that this color pops more than the blue , because now we're working with , complementary colors so that is another , technique that you can use use , complementary colors put them side by , side so that it pops also I chose to , change the color of the shirt but I , could have just as easily changed the , color of the background so if we go back , into our color wheel you will see that , the opposite of blue the complementary , color of blue is yellow or orange , depending on the blue so we'll be safe , with selecting a yellow orange color so , if I go back into Photocopy can create , a hue and saturation adjustment layer , and do the same exact thing hold ctr , command on the Mac click and drag to , change the color of the background until , we have an orange or yellow color so , somewhere about here maybe increase the , saturation bit and the lightness so , that'before and after so this is a , complementary color method that you can , use to make colors pop in Photocopied , I have a final method for you this one , is actually very simple we're going to , work with this image here of this red , ca rand another way of making colors , pop is by saturating all colors except , for the ones that you want to pop so you , can go into the Masters in the drop-down , and reduce the saturation of the entire , image then you can select Red's and , increase the saturation so now the Reds , pop because all the other colors are , muted that is one way of doing it , another way of doing it is by reducing , the saturation then creating a hue and , saturation adjustment layer which , controls the Reds and increase the , saturation to that and the reason that , you may want to do this is so that you , can delete the layer mask and then us ea , lasso tool to make a rough selection , around the car create a layer mask and , now this adjustment layer only takes , care of the car you will notice that , there is some saturation in the ground , that's easily fixed by doing two things , first I can increase the feather which , blurs the edge of the mask if I hold alt , option on the Mac and click on the layer , mask thumbnail you can see how that edge , is blurred as I increase the feather I'm , gonna hold alt option in the Mac again , and click on the layer mask thumbnail to , bring that back then Icahn use the brush , tool in paint with a soft brush with a , hardness of 0%and you can see how I'm , painting with black on that layer mask , to hide those pixel sand notice that I'm , not being very precise but I'm getting , good results so that's before and after , and of course I can control the opacity , of this layer so that it's not so strong , so before and after and obviously in , this tutorial Used extreme examples to , make it easy to see but you don'thieve , to go as extreme as I did in these , examples also as I'vie been working , through this tutorial you'll probably , notice that have a banana here on my , tools bar if you want to know what , that'sabot then look at the , description placed slink there to a , video that describes it and it shows you , how to get it let me know in the , comments below which of these techniques , was new to you or which you plan to use , on your next project also if this is , your first time at the Photo shop , training channel then don'forget to , click on that subscribe and notification , buttons thank you so much for watching , and I will see you at the next tutorial .
