From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Color resides in the eyes of the beholder

Color resides in the eyes of the beholder - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Color resides in the eyes of the beholder

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- The topic of this chapter is color. Now, technically speaking, color is the combination of two ingredients, hue and saturation. Hue is what you and I think of as color. That is the colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, and so on. Saturation is the intensity of that color. From stone cold drab to lustrously vibrant. The various colors have specific hue and saturation values and because Photoshop provides a color managed environment, you stand a good chance of achieving predictable results from screen to print, as well as from one screen to the next, but our perceptions of color are largely subjective, meaning that you can take an image with an obvious color cast and adjust it in any number of ways. To you, one treatment will look just right, but to someone else, another correction might look better and perhaps later to you as well. The way you perceive color is one way at breakfast, another at lunch, and still another before you go to bed. It's just the way our eyes…

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