I remember the first time I did plein air oil painting of trees and grass outside... my painting started out lurid, toxic green and I spent the whole time adding red to my greens! I learned that green in nature is quite muted. I really appreciate that you relate your tutorials to artistic fundamentals!
Well, you have done it again. Your "Better Foliage Color Now" has made my landscapes pop like never before! Thank you so much for all the great work you share with us. You are a true leader and artist!!! Your free downloads will be used often.
What a fantastic tutorial. I have been using Selective Colour and "playing" with it on quite a few images without fully understanding how it works. I thought I was doing a reasonable job, but it was basically experimentation with no direction. Your explanation of the colour wheel and how this either adds or subtracts the complimentary colour was a lightbulb moment for me. If only Adobe would adopt your version of the Selective Colour layout, it would make it so much more intuitive. Thank you. Keep up the excellent work Blake.
I have been using this method for a couple of years now and subsequently have not used the saturation slider in ACR since. I actually made it a preset in the selective color tool but thank you for the action.
Awesome! Do you find that your presets are still there after you update PS? I'm always afraid of making a ton of great selective color presets just to find them gone on a version update from say 2022-2023
I have been using this since Photshop 3. Its similar to one of the parameters you'd adjust on a drum scanner. Not only is it super powerful in combination with a mask. But I think it's probably one of the best tools to boost that slight dullness you get after conversion to CMYK. You only have to move the sliders a little to get back some of the RGB wow. I'm not sure I'd like the cyan slider showing red on the left of the Yellow_adjust because that's not going to happen. It's better to forget the RGB theory and think in terms of mixing paint with this filter. Thanks for all these videos after 30 odd years there's still so much more to be learnt. 😊
Ha Ha, you have taught me well. I saw the Actions link and almost clicked it BEFORE watching the video. A little voice inside my head, sounds like you actually, 😉😂, said "don't do it!" Very helpful video. Thanks.
Now that is very good, your Actions give a very natural boost to the yellows, greens and reds in my images. I have been playing around with Selective Color for awhile now after you highlighlighted this adjustment layer a few years back but haven't been able to tweak it as well as you have for these colors using this Action you have provided for free. I really hope that other viewers also check out f64 Academy and f64 Elite as you are a brilliant educator.
Wow! That was wonderful! I’m working my way through your Blend If course and will definitely add this to repertoire. As I’m writing this I realized that you can use this for all your color enhancements, not just for foliage. Wonderful knowledge to have. Thank you.
Thanks Blake. This is great. Having access to your actions is really helpful. You touched on this topic numerous times during your last photo review in F.64 Academy Elite. You have provided a great explanation of how to understand selective color. Bravo!
Thank you so much, Blake. I love your videos on color theory especially. Even though I'm an Affinity Photo user, I'm always able to adapt the concepts and techniques you teach because you explain things so well and give great examples. Really appreciate the effort you go through. Cheers!
Wow, I'm always excited but slightly exhausted after these videos that focus on color. I really wish Adobe would color the CMY sliders like you do for these videos. Maybe some day the pairings (cyan-red, magenta-green, yellow-blue) will be automatic for me rather than a (smaller and smaller) speed bump. Sometimes I have to work my way back up the sliders as yellow-blue is easiest for me (from the temperature slider in editing apps?), then magenta-green (the tint slider?) and then I remember what is paired with cyan. I love the nerdy stuff, but sometimes it makes my head hurt.
Fantastic method, I just love it. It brings so much more editing joy! Thank-you from Germany for the explanations and the atn file. It's greatly appreciated!
You can! Study, study, study and practice! The beauty of working with color is that it's all theory 😉 experiment and work your way through it, you'll get this knowledge, that's how I did 😁 and I'm still learning!
This is exciting, Blake! While my understanding of color theory is still growing, I still (as you know) struggle due to my color vision deficiency. In a way that is similar to your landscape cheat actions, I can successfully exploit these selective color actions without actually needing to correctly see or choose a color. f64 Elite is one of the best values in photography!
One of the better explanations I have seen Blake as it can be hard to understand Sorry for the swearing ---- it's basically the same in Affinity Photo :) as with all adjustment layers, mask can be used to target certain parts of the image I was expecting a little info on the Whites/Neutrals/Black sliders -- handy with B+W as well as colour Good one Blake
Amazing…I am working thru slowly(newer to PS than some LOL) and have the Palette Effects course as well..really appreciate your efforts! Wow this was really fast and furious…hard to catch every new thought so saved this to watch over and over until it becomes more instinct!…as a hobbyist painter myself I know from past experience color theory is super important with pigments but with CMYRGB it is a whole new ball game in Photos! Thank you!!
Did you find Selective Color Adjustment Layer more useful, when you work with monochrome conversion of colored photos, than the regular color manipulation technique? Wonderful educational course! Thank you very much!!
Interesting way to use selective colour. I have been using it for years in affinity photo but tend to move the sliders to see what is happening. I is exceptionally good for increasing contrast as well as making colours pop.
This is a good addendum to your ZSE7 course Blake! I'm on the Artistic Effects Module, Lesson 1 right now. Did I mention that you're a great teacher? (I'd be remiss not to mention Matt K's "Inside The Composition" course, he's a great teacher too, I just finished his course.) 👍🏼😎👍🏼
Yep! I have a video for that too on my channel. Let me see if I can find it ... Here it is! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B1Y6GVHYoV8.html
Well this oughta save some time. I spent so much time fine tuning multiple selective color layers frustated beyond belief because your eyes eventually become "numb" to the colors. If you don't take a break, you'll look at your final image later and wonder what the hell you were thinking. Thank you.
In the example on the slide with magenta manipulation in selective color dialog box is not exactly right. If you reduce magenta percentage in magenta control tab it is more like a saturation reduction. It doesn't necessarily cause the magentas to become green. Results of selective color depends on overall color content in image. Your colour strips proposal may be confusing. Personaly I use selective color to reduce color casts from image or to achieve more vibrant color by balancing "unwanted color". For example, in greens I reduce magenta casts on flat areas but keep it in details.
It really depends on relative vs absolute. But you are correct, it also depends on the available color within the image, if there are no magenta's it does nothing.
Yes. As the video states, they are in the description under the video. You may have to ensure you are watching this on RU-vid to see that. If it was on an embedded site they may not have given the link to the actions.
