From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layers and Blend Modes

Recoloring artwork with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layers and Blend Modes

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Recoloring artwork with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer

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- There's another reason why you might use a hue saturation adjustment layer, and it's for more graphic design type reasons. Ultimately, if you designed a graphic, you might've picked different colors from around the color wheel and that's great. But with the hue saturation adjustment layer, it's easy to shift those and try out new combinations. Here's how it works. In this case what we're going to do is refine this. You notice that we've got our background and this is just a logo treatment. By adding the hue saturation adjustment layer, I could really control things. It's going ahead and automatically clipped here to the layer down below. This is great because it means that it's only going to be applied to the logo itself and not the underlying texture or background. Now watch how simple this is. We can easily just roll through the hue to try out different color combinations or check the color box if you want to go with a more monochromatic look and try out a simple one color solution. This allows you the ability to quickly experiment with a one color design or uncheck Colorize, you can dial in different color combinations. Because the colors were selected from the color wheel, you see as we shift, it's easy to experiment with different choices. This allows great flexibility as you experiment with your design and if the client wants a muted effect, just back off saturation. Want a vivid effect? Pop it a bit. Experiment with lightness and it's easy to try out new color combinations. The hue saturation adjustment layer is a very versatile way if you're doing web or graphic design.

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