Unleashed Edit: Opal's Colouriffic Photo

Urban style shoots can be a great way of incorporating colours and textures not found in nature. But what do you do when the colour isn't quite the right shade and hue you pictured?

Instead of applying global adjustments that mess with the colours in other areas of the image, we look into some techniques for selecting and adjusting selected areas of colour only.

What better way to demonstrate these techniques, than while editing an urban Unleashed Education colour-themed shot of Charlotte's special little lady, Opal the Aussie!

Instructor: Charlotte Reeves

Video length: 28 minutes

Software: Photoshop-focused

Skill level: Intermediate

What you'll learn

Lightroom

How to know if you can recover bright highlights by reading the histogram
How to correct uneven lighting

Photoshop

Identifying, selecting and masking specific colours
Advanced use of the Hue/Saturation properties to tweak individual colours
Using layer blending modes to manipulate colours and tones
A handy trick for helping content-aware do a better job
Accurate fur masking using the Select and Mask workspace
Using double-masking for more control over local adjustments

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