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STEP SIX: EXTRA BOOST &
REFINEMENTS (OPTIONAL)
The increased saturation doesn’t look good in the areas at the bottom of the
image. To fix that, click on the layer mask thumbnail of the Hue/Saturation
adjustment layer in the Layers panel to make it active. Then, simply switch to the
Brush tool (B); press D then X to set black as the Foreground color; and using
the Soft Round brush, paint up from the bottom gradually. Use the Bracket
keys on your keyboard to quickly change the size of the brush.
To increase the effect in the other areas, simply keep duplicating the Hue/
Saturation adjustment layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J), and then
refine the masks to your liking.Method 2: Selective Color
STEP ONE: ADD SELECTIVE
COLOR & BOOST TARGET COLOR
For the second technique, we’re going to delete all the Hue/Saturation layers
and use the same image. Click on the Create New Adjustment Layer icon at
the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Selective Color. In the Selective
Color Properties panel, make sure that Relative is selected (not Absolute). We
want to boost the reds in the image, so from the Colors drop-down menu,
first choose Reds, and then decrease the Cyan slider all the way to –100%.
Why Cyan? Because cyan is the opposite of red, and decreasing cyan will
increase the reds.
Note: Remember, RGB (red, green, blue) is the opposite of CMY (cyan,
magenta, yellow). So when you have Reds selected in Selective Color, and you
want to increase the reds, you’d increase the Reds slider, right? But there’s no
Red slider! What to do? Well, since RGB is the opposite of CMY, and we do
have a Cyan slider, you can decrease the Cyan to bring up the reds.BeforeAfter