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Advanced color grading with selective color

Advanced color grading with selective color - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Advanced color grading with selective color

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- A newer tool to Photos for macOS is the Selective Color Tool. You saw it earlier as it let us target specific colors for advanced refinement. Some people refer to this as secondary color correction or selective color correction, and you can use it a variety of ways. Let's go to this image here with this building that's a bit run down. And I'll click Edit. Let's choose Auto for light to get a good overall exposure, but I'd like to make a few additional advanced changes. I'll scroll down to Selective Color. It's near the bottom here, and you'll see different widgets for different predefined areas. For example, if I choose the blues, I could adjust the saturation of the blues overall, as well as the lightness, and you see how that makes it easy to target the sky, or even change the color of the sky so it feels properly balanced. There, that simple target adjustment went after the blue. Now, maybe I want to go after the…

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