22 A Basic Photoshop Technics

Ex. 2

Date of Completion: Mar 5, 2009

Understanding of basic image editing and retouching techniques using paint and color conversion, black and white conversion and using pen path tool as selection techniques.

• conversion of RGB image into Grayscale
• coloring the portion with others in Grayscale mode
• techniques of B/W conversion using adjustment layer
• coloring techniques of eyes

Distructive & nondistructive methods of applying grayscale to an RGB image. Colorize a selection with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Paint fingernails using the Color blend mode.

Painted fingernails without affecting an original photo using layers

Next, performing a standard grayscale conversion process for comparison. The difference is making grayscale image, using Hue/Saturation to edit individual color channels.

Difference between b&w using grayscale mode and saturation technic

Finally, colorize an image with a Hue/ Saturation adjustment layer to look like a sepia tone. Draw a path with Pen Tool to make a selection, create new channel from selection. Feather the alpha channel selections with the Gaussian blur filter. Combine the alpha channels to fine tune the selection, colorize the selection.

Changing a color of the eye

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