Lately while riding my bike, I find
myself attracted to the colors around me, and almost feel moved by
the diverse hues, shapes, and colors in the county town I live in.
With my trigger finger on my cameras shutter button, firing away
in machine gun fashion, shooting up the neighborhood. So the question
is: How come the colors in my processed image dont look as
vibrant as they did when I made the shot?
The answer lies beyond the scope of this article, but perhaps I can help.
 | So heres an image I took of my neighbors cabin door. (left) I swear, it was much better looking color wise when I took the image! So how did I improve the saturation in two (2) easy steps to get the image you see below? Simple Photoshops Apply Image!! |
| 1. Lets begin by duplicating the background layer (ctrl+J) |
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 | 2. Now were going to change from RGB to LAB mode. |
3. Now comes my secret Apply
Image
 | As soon as you apply image youll get this dialogue box. |
 | The dialogue has just the right (image left) defaults you want: Channel: LAB and Blending: Multiply |
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| Reduce layer ones (top layer) opacity to suit your taste. (image top) |
| Your finished now except for one more step convert the image back to RGBImage>Mode>RGB. |
| I usually dont flatten the image when converting back to RGB. That way I can always change the top layers opacity if I decide to. |
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Youre done!
(c) 2006 Robert Mizerek [contact] [bio ]
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