Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Step 6—Global Color Adjustment

At this point, any color casts that plagued the image should be gone and the overall brightness and contrast should look okay, which will make it much easier to evaluate the color in the image. The colors in an image will often look rather flat and lifeless at this stage, so I'll add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer and boost the Saturation until the colors come alive (Figures 17.25 and 17.26). If you intend to print the image, you'll have to be careful that the colors in the image don't become more colorful than what your printer is capable of reproducing. When that happens, your printed results will look less vibrant than what was seen on-screen and some color might shift (such as vivid blues becoming dark purple). ...