Photoshop for Designers: Color
2h 27mIntermediate2017-02-07
Authors
Nigel French
Graphic Designer, Author, Artist, Trainer
Course details
In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French shows you how to correct, manage, edit, and change color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes instruction on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color, and more.
Learning objectives
The color wheel and color relationships
Managing color swatches
Transparency and color channels
Working with the Color Picker
Additive and subtractive color
Working with color modes
Performing color correction
Saturation and desaturation
Designing with spot color
Using adjustments: levels, curves, and white balance
Using auto color adjustments
Matching color
Learning objectives
The color wheel and color relationships
Managing color swatches
Transparency and color channels
Working with the Color Picker
Additive and subtractive color
Working with color modes
Performing color correction
Saturation and desaturation
Designing with spot color
Using adjustments: levels, curves, and white balance
Using auto color adjustments
Matching color
Skills covered
Color TheoryImage EditingPhotoshopPhotographyGraphic DesignAdobeAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- How to use the exercise files
Color Terms and Concepts
- Define color terms
- Use the color wheel to understand color relationships
- Create color themes
- Create a color theme from an image
Color Conventions in Photoshop
- Work with the Color Picker
- The role of foreground and background colors
- Choose sample colors
- Manage and share swatches
- Work with transparency
- Color channels
Color Modes in Photoshop
- Additive and subtractive color
- RGB
- CMYK
- Lab
- Indexed
- Grayscale
- Duotone
- Bitmap
Evaluate and Measure Color in Photoshop
- An overview of color management
- Use the Histogram panel
- Use the Info panel
- 8-bit and 16-bit images
Enhance Color in Photoshop
- Levels
- Set the black-and-white point
- Auto adjustments
- Curves
- Color correction
Techniques for Working with Color in Photoshop
- Create a signature color with selective saturation
- Desaturate to create a nostalgic image
- Build density in a sky
- Save a flat sky
- Design with Spot Color
- Creative toning with a gradient map
- Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette
- Replace colors
- Create a consistent look with color lookup tables and layer effects
- Match color
Combine Color and Black and White in Photoshop
- Combine color and black and white
- Convert color to high-contrast black and white
- Sepia tone and split tone
- Work with line art
- Hand color an image
- Infrared
Conclusion
- Next steps