Chapter 17: Modifying and Mapping Color


Overview

Color is one of the most significant factors in our visual experience of the world around us. Humans react to color emotionally. Cool, subdued colors can calm our senses, and hot, saturated colors can excite and motivate us. Color affects the decisions of our daily lives, such as whether we purchase a certain product or cross the street. It affects our physical and mental space and contributes to our sense of well-being.

Because color plays such an important role in our lives, how we use it to communicate ideas is essential to the success of our images. As you have seen, Adobe Photoshop provides numerous ways to apply and adjust color. In this chapter, you will explore features that can radically alter existing colors in an image ” color-mapping operations that go beyond brightness and contrast adjustments and simple color fills. These operations provide the means to alter the basic characteristics of color while maintaining the image s detail. You can use these commands to change the entire color scheme of your image or to create eye-popping graphic effects, such as vibrant posterizations, high-contrast art, and textured halftones .

In this chapter, you will learn about:

  • Altering the hue and saturation

  • Matching colors

  • Replacing the colors in an image

  • Limiting the number of colors in an image

  • Producing graphic effects using halftones




Photoshop CS Savvy
Photoshop CS Savvy
ISBN: 078214280X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 355

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