Adobe Photoshop CS2 On Demand [Electronic resources]

Using the Variations Adjustment

Photoshop's Variations adjustment gives you a look at how working with analogous and complimentary colors impacts the color in a Photoshop document. For example, if an image has an overall green cast, it needs additional magenta. Understanding how colors interact and work to produce different colors helps you decide the correct course of action to take, and the Variations adjustment is an excellent teacher.

Use the Variations Adjustment

Open a document.

Click the

Image menu, point to

Adjustments , and then click

Variations .

The Original and Current Pick are displayed in the upper-left portions of the Variations dialog box.

To restore the image, click

Original any time during the adjustment process.

Click the

Shadows, Midtones, Highlights , or

Saturation options to apply a color shift.

Drag the

Fine/Coarse slider to determine how much change occurs with each adjustment.

Select the

Show Clipping check box to display a mask over areas of the image outside of the CMYK printable color space.

Click the color thumbnails surrounding the image to add specific colors to the Current Pick.

Click Lighter or Darker to change the brightness of the image.

Click

OK .

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