Chapter 1: Enhancing Images with Adjustments
In This Chapter
Selecting automatic color correction
Using simple manual color correction tools
Introducing professional correction tools
Switching colors with mappers and other tools
Photoshop can provide magical transformations to images, making them unrecognizable from the original. But sometimes what you really want is simply to make an image look the same as the original — only better. Perhaps the colors are a little too warm, or the shadows a bit inky, but you don’t want an image that looks more processed than a freeze-dried floral arrangement. You’d be happy to have everyone admire your image without a clue that you’ve made major corrections in Photoshop.
Welcome to the world of image enhancements. This chapter concentrates on the things you can do to correct color, contrast, hue, and color saturation. After you master the basic tools, you can explore some even more sophisticated things that you can do by using features such as Photoshop’s Adjustment Layers (in Book V, Chapter 1), which let you dynamically apply your changes in ...
