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Manually adjusting colors with Color Balance

Manually adjusting colors with Color Balance - Photoshop Tutorial

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Manually adjusting colors with Color Balance

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll so you how to manually compensate for the color cast of an image using a color balance adjustment layer. So here I am looking at one of the turtles that I corrected in the previous chapter subject to a brightness contrast adjustment layer. So here's the original image and here's the way it looks now. So obviously in better shape, but it appears to me that we have a kind of yellowish color cast and so I can confirm whether that's the case or not by selecting my Eyedropper tool and then dragging around in the background. Now, it's anyone's guess what's supposed to be neutral inside this image, but if I drag around back here you can see that my hue value is jumping around from as low as the 20s right here, 20 degrees that is, to as high as now 68 degrees. And if I go ahead and switch over to my color wheel, you can see that 20 degrees is down here in scarlet territory and 60 degrees is yellow. So sure enough, it looks like we do have a yellow color…

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