Adobe Photoshop P6: Adobe Photoshop delivers powerful, industry-standard image-editing tools for professional designers who want to produce sophisticated graphics for the Web and for print. Included with Photoshop is ImageReady and its powerful set of Web tools for optimizing and previewing images, batch-processing images with droplets in the Actions palette, and creating GIF animations. Photoshop and ImageReady combined offer a comprehensive environment for designing graphics for the Web | ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 169 Classroom in a Book 5 In the Layers palette click the eye icon next to the Color Balance layer to hide and show the layer. You ll see the difference between the adjusted colors and the original colors. 6 Choose File Save. Note When you double-click an adjustment layer in the Layers palette the corresponding Layer Style dialog box appears where you can edit the values of the adjustment layer. Adjusting color balance Every color adjustment affects the overall color balance in your image. You have numerous ways to achieve similar effects so determining which adjustment is appropriate depends on the image and on the desired effect. It helps to keep a diagram of the color wheel on hand if you re new to adjusting color components. You can use the color wheel to predict how a change in one color component affects other colors and also how changes translate between RGB and CMYK color models. For example you can decrease the amount of any color in an image by increasing the amount of its opposite on the color wheel and vice versa. Similarly you can increase and decrease a color by adjusting the two adjacent colors on the wheel or even by adjusting the two colors adjacent to its opposite. For example in a CMYK image you can decrease magenta by decreasing either the amount of magenta or its proportion by adding cyan and yellow . You can even combine these two corrections minimizing their effect on overall lightness. In an RGB image you can decrease magenta by removing red and blue or by adding green. All of these adjustments result in an overall color balance containing less magenta. -From Adobe Photoshop online Help Replacing colors in an image With the Replace Color command you can create temporary masks based on specific colors and then replace these colors. Masks let you isolate an area of an image so that changes affect just the selected area and not the rest of the image. Options in the Replace Color command s dialog box allow you to adjust .
