Let’s REALLY Learn How To Use Selective Color

Color Theory, you know it’s my favorite topic, right?  Today I have a really awesome tip for you on how to intensify the colors in your image using the Selective Color Adjustment Layer.  We often think of the selective color adjustment layer as a tool to help alter the colors in our image, for example, changing Yellow to Orange.  But the selective color layer can be used to make your colors more intense.

The Selective Color Adjustment Layer has many advantages over its distant cousin, the HSL Adjustment Layer.  The prime advantage is that it avoids blowing your colors out of gamut by adjusting the colors based on the percentages of other colors that are present.

In today’s video, I am going to show you how you can intensify the colors in any photo using the principles of Color Theory and the Selective Color adjustment layer.

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Blake Rudis
f.64 Academy and f.64 Elite are the brainchildren of Blake Rudis. While he is a landscape photographer, he is most passionate about post-processing images in Photoshop and mentoring others.

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