Coloring the Grass

The grass in our photo is quite brown, so next you ll color it. The best way to color the grass is to match it with the color of grass in another photo. Follow these steps:

1. Choose the Magnetic Lasso tool . Encircle Violetta as accurately as possible. You might need to use the Quick Mask (see Chapter 12, Using Channels and Quick Mask ) or another selection technique to tweak the results of the selection.

2. Inverse the selection so that the grass is now selected.

3. On the CD in the HO7 folder, open the document grass.psd .

4. Activate the Violetta document. Choose Image ’ Adjustments ’ Match Color (see Figure H7.15). For the Source, choose grass.psd . Check the Use Selection in Target to Calculate Adjustment box.

   
   Figure H7.15: The Match Color dialog box

5. The default results are too saturated . To correct them, move the Luminance slider to the left, to 77. Reduce the color intensity to 69. Drag the Fade slider to the right, to 24.

6. Save the image.