LPS Workflow Actions Recipe #3
Now that’s what I call a wedding car, lol. Ok, so we have the flames of the desire going down the side. How can you quickly enhance the orange whilst leaving the soft sepia that has been mixed through the image intact?
Before
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This another recipe from the LPS Workflow Essentials Actions. So anyone can download them and give it a go for yourself. This is a down and dirty way of enhancing color using an adjustment layer.
Recipe
#23 – Curves
#28 – Warming Filter 81
There’s a bit of masking to this one as we want to introduce the warming filter over the parts of the image that are orange to enhance them. To do this press Command+I (MAC) or Control+I (PC) to inverse the adjustment layers mask to black thus hiding the effect. Then using white as your foreground color, you can paint in the areas of warm orange to enhance the colour thats already there. If you make a mistake then inverse your foreground color to black by pressing the (X) key and paint away the excess.
#17 – Flatten Image
Done!
Now, this is not limited to orange. Use the action to get the warming filter in place and then you can change it to any color you like. Pretty clever eh!
After
© Stuart Little 2009
Stuart Little is a Professional Photographer and Photoshop Trainer with over 18 years experience in the field. The Little Photoshop is home to Stuart's articles, screencasts, training dvds, actions and inspiration based around the topics of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Digital Photography and Off Camera Lighting.
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