
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks64
This “wild color” effect is incredibly popular right now. In fact, there are entire collections of royalty-free stock photos that use
this technique, and you often see it used in print ads, in magazines, and on the Web. It’s ideal for taking an otherwise boring
image and using wild colors to make it trendy and interesting.
Instant Stock Photo Effect
STEP ONE: Open the photo you want
to apply the effect to. In this case, it’s
a regular RGB photo that looks kinda,
well…boring.
STEP TWO: Go to the Layers palette, and
from the Create Adjustment Layer pop-
up menu, choose Gradient Map. This will
bring up the ...