While Photoshop’s Color Balance feature may seem like the right place to go to correct an image’s color, your best bets are actually functions that don’t even have the words color or balance in their names.
Photoshop expert Deke McClelland will show you how to use Variations, Hue/Saturation, Gradient Map, and Camera Raw. You’ll neutralize an image with a widespread color imbalance, increase the saturation of a drab photo, colorize a black-and-white photo, and more.
Which result do you prefer?
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Copyright 2006 Type & Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved. “Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One,” by Deke McClelland. ISBN 0-596-10096-5. Used with permission from the publisher. This book is available from booksellers or direct from O’Reilly Media, www.oreilly.com
This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on July 26, 2006
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