Color Balance

Important Adjustment Layer Step for each color adjustment

• Create a new adjustment layer by clicking Layer>New Adjustment Layer
• Select Color Balance on the popup menu.

Color Balance changes the overall mixture of colors in an image for generalized color correction.

How to do it

• Click Image>Adjustments>Color Balance.
• The RGB channel has to be selected in the Channels palette.
• Select Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights to select the tonal range on which you want to focus the changes.
• Click Preserve Luminosity to prevent changing the luminosity values in the image while changing the color. This option maintains the tonal balance in the image.
• Drag a slider toward a color you want to increase in the image; drag a slider away from a color you want to decrease in the image.
• The values above the color bars show the color changes for the red, green, and blue channels. Values can range from -100 to +100.
• Drag the sliders toward colors in each of the tone areas (Shadows, Midtones, Highlights) to change the color balance

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