How to change just one color in Adobe Photoshop CC

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93 lessons / 12 hours 20 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan Scott. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Photoshop. 

In this course I will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with Photoshop.  

This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Photoshop, photography or design. We will start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

You will learn the Photoshop 'secret sauce' whereby we will magically enhance our background and when necessary completely remove people from images.

By the end of this course you'll posess super skills! 
  • Learn the skills to mask anything… including the dreaded hair. 
  • Using your amazing new masking skills, you will be able to clearcut images.
  • You will learn how to make type interactive. 
  • Together we will look at popular current visual styles and learn the tools and tricks necessary to recreate them. 
  • There is a fun section where you will learn how to distort, transform and manipulate images
  • We will create our own graphics using simple techniques from scratch. 
  • I will teach you to retouch photographs like a professional.. 
  • Finally - any good Photoshop user should know how to put an island inside a bottle! 

There are exercise files available to download so that you can follow along with me in the videos. There are lots of assignments I will set so that you can practice the skills you have learned. 

If you have never opened Photoshop before or you have already opened Photoshop and are struggling with the basics, follow me and together we will learn how to make beautiful images using Photoshop.

Course duration 8 hours 35 mins + your study.

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hey there, in this video we're going to change just one particular color in an image rather than the whole thing. See the yellow in the glasses here, and the yellow in the shoe, ready, hey presto, magic. The green, and blue, and all sorts of other cool colors. It's got the pink. Same with this image, all sorts of cool colors. It's only affecting the shoes, not the color in the background. Let's learn how to do that now in Adobe Photoshop. 

From the same folder that we've been using, called 'color', let's open up 'Selective Hue 01' and 'Selective Hue 02'. We're going to start with '01'. And we're going to go, like we did before, we're going to use 'Adjustment Panel', and we're going to go to 'Hue & Saturation'. Now the problem though is, if I use Hue, I just want to change, say, just the shoe here, so I'm going to put it back to '0'. I want to change just this part, or just the yellow. The yellow of the sunglasses and the yellow of the shoe here. To change it, if I want to make it pink… way to go. 

So the yellow sunglasses are now pink, which is awesome, but everything else has changed color, it's kind of cool but it's not what we want, we want to just change the yellow, so put him back to '0'. Now what you do is, see this thing that says Master, it's doing everything, what you can do is you can be selective about the colors. So you say, "I want to just change the yellows, please." Click on the yellows, start dragging that. Voila, it will affect just the yellows. Cool, huh! 

So now you're going to be… Nice! Like always, it's an Adjustment Layer, turn it on and off. I can always go and amend it. Now there will be times when, let's say, I want to change just the sunglasses' yellow, not this yellow. That's going to require us to do a Selection and a Mask, which is a little bit later on in the course, definitely doable, but if you want to change everything that's yellow, super easy, just select it from this drop down, and adjust it. 

I'd like you to practice with Selective Hue 02. Adjust both the background color and the shoes. So reds, this guy here, and giving it a way of Cyans. So do the same thing as we did earlier on. Have a practice, and I will see you in the next video.

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