Chapter 8. Color Manipulation

Oh, yes. Dr. Ashley felt that color has a great deal to do with the well-being of the emotionally disturbed.

—Nurse Diesel, in the film High Anxiety (1978)

Look at this chapter as a box chock-full of color-manipulation tools and methods. Photoshop provides an abundance of ways to shift the colors in an image. Which tools and methods you use depends on the type of original image you have and what kind of results you want. We’ll start with a few popular options and progress into lesser-known techniques that might be useful from time to time.

Before we get to the fun stuff, you first need some basic knowledge about ...

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