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Photoshop: Creative Lab Color

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Explore the tools, techniques, and creative possibilities of Lab Color in Photoshop. Learn how to enhance and transform images with Lab adjustments and Photoshop blending modes.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The creative power of Lab
  • Color spaces and gamuts
  • The properties of Lab in Photoshop
  • Converting to Lab
  • Exercise files and software download
1. Fine-Tuning an Image with LAB and Curves
  • Using a Lab all-channel equalization
  • Applying a curve to the L-channel
  • Applying a curve to the A and B channels
  • Selective application of a curve
  • Selective sharpening with the L-channel
2. Using the Inversion Adjustment
  • Lab inversions and L-channel inversions
  • Inverting the A channel
  • Inverting the B channel and AB-channels
  • Adjusting contrast with a curve
  • Working with the exclusion blending mode
3. Working with Equalizations
  • Per-channel equalizations
  • The power of opacity
  • Selective equalizations
  • Clouds in landscapes and seascapes
  • Faces: Eyes and lips
4. A Palette of Lab Possibilities
  • Installing Harold's Lab action
  • Using Harold's Lab action
  • Lab meets Andy Warhol
  • Lab adjustments and blending modes
  • Making Lab patterns
Conclusion
  • Creative Lab in your workflow

Taught by

Harold Davis

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