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PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
THE MISSION
Drain the colour in
your image apart
from the focal point
to make it ‘pop’Time needed
20 minutesSkill level
BeginnerKit needed
Photoshop /
ElementsMake your pics pop!
Dan Mold shows you how to give your pictures a burst of
colour by selectively desaturating the surrounding scene
ere’s a fun technique
that leaves the viewer
in no doubt of where to
look in your picture.
It’s called selective
colouring because you’re
editing the shot to remove
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your image, in our shot we
only wanted the model and
her vibrant dress to stand
out so left her full of colour.
You’ll discover how to make
full use of Layers, one of the most
useful features Photoshop has to
offer, allowing you to stackdifferent images or adjustments
separately. If you’re new to
Photoshop or have never
experimented with layers this is
a really easy technique to get to
grips with that will show you how
they work – you can do it in either
Photoshop or Elements.
Along the way you’ll learn how
to use Layer Masks which is where
you can hide part of a layer. In the
case here we’ll use a Hue/
Saturation layer to remove all of
the colour from the image, then
paint onto the Layer Mask to hide
the desaturating effect preciselyover the model. Using layers is a
completely non-destructive way
of working as it doesn’t effect the
original image – you can reverse
the effect on any of your layers
and go revert to the original.
All sorts of images work well
with selective colouring, so have
a dig through your image library
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suitably colourful shot you’d like
to try it out on. That, or you can
use the provided Train_before.jpg
start image from the Resources
folder on your disc or download.
Let’s get started...H
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