For more precise colour selection, try to keep Fuzziness to lower values. I recommend adjusting Fuzziness by previewing the image. The higher we set the Fuzziness value, the more brightness levels we include in the acceptable range. Now, I uncheck the option ‘Detect Faces’ and check the option ‘Localised Color Clusters’, as this is the most appropriate for this style of image – if you’re editing a portrait for example, you could keep it selected.įuzziness controls the selection area outside of your initial selection. Like with a layer mask, areas in the image that are fully selected appear white in the preview window, while areas that are not selected appear black. 3) Refining your selectionĪt the bottom of the window, you’ll notice the preview window displays the selections as a grayscale image. Doing this builds the colour range for the image. From there, you can add to your selection with the middle Eyedropper, and subtract from your selection with the Eyedropper on the right. The main Eyedropper is selected by default, and that’s what you’ll use to select a colour from your image. Next, you’ll see three Eyedropper tools on the right. These additional options can come in handy in certain situations, but we’ll stick to ‘Sampled Colors’ for this tutorial. For example, you can instantly select all the pixels of a specific colour (reds, yellows, blues, etc.) or select the brightest pixels in the image by choosing Highlights, or the darkest pixels by choosing Shadows. If you click on the words “Sampled Colors”, you’ll see a list of different selection options. Photoshop “samples” the colour and selects all of the pixels that are the same as, or within a certain range of, that colour (hence the name “Color Range”). With this option selected, the tool selects pixels that share the same or similar colour with a click on an area of that colour in the image. With the Background copy layer selected, click Select > Color Range. This means I will only make changes to my copy if I need to start again at any time. 1) Create a layerįirst, I create a Background Copy Layer by Selecting the background layer and dragging it over the Create New Layer icon (It has a + symbol). A Color Range Based selection will allow me to do this. In this image of an Impatiens flower below, I wanted to make adjustments to the saturation of the petals, but I didn’t want to adjust the leaves or other parts of the image. This makes it easy to select a specific colour and then change its hue, saturation and/or brightness. Color Range Based SelectionĬolor Range is a selection tool that allows you to select parts of an image based on its colour. So, let’s dive right in, with the first, making a Colour Range based selection. Better yet, once you’ve learned them, they will become a useful tool in your editing toolkit, especially so as they are incredibly accurate. In Photoshop, there’s a selection of tools that can perform these actions, along with all sorts of others, quickly and easily. Have you ever photographed the perfect subject, but wanted to tweak just one colour in the image? Or have you ever wanted to edit just the out of focus areas in one of your images, leaving the in-focus parts alone?
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