Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Technique 26: The Big Color Swap Meet

Save Time By

Selecting a color source

Applying the source colors to the target image

Suppose you’re designing a family Web site and you have five photographs of your children that you want to put on one Web page. The pictures were taken at different times and in different lighting conditions, so unfortunately the tone of each photograph is different — one has a bluish cast, one looks yellow, another is reddish, well, you get the picture (pun intended). Because the photographs are all going on one Web page, they should be as uniform as possible in color range and tone. But, how are you going to do it?

Photoshop has the answer: the Match Color command. By using the Match Color command, you can select the color and tone from the photograph that you like best and apply it to the other photos, adjusting their colors and tones to match. You can also use the Match Color command to apply the colors from one layer to another within the same image or from one selection to another within the same image or different images.

The Match Color command is especially good for matching skin tones. So, if you have three photographs of the same model, but the color cast of her face is slightly different in each photograph, you can use the Match Color command to even out the skin tones between the three photographs.

In this technique, you find out how to use the Match Color command to enhance your images by evening out tone and color. You also discover how to save and load Match Color settings for later use. Color Plate 26-1 shows you the results of the images used in this technique.