Colour - Hue/Saturation

Creating mono toning effects

For this task we chose to edit some photographs in various ways, the first was mono tone effects, for this

we started off with a basic image:

then we applied some basic photoshop tools e.g. below

1.     Open toning image from DVD.

2.     Click on adjustment layer and select Hue/saturation

3.     tick the colorize box (image will instantly be toned)

4.     Move Hue to get the colour you want and saturation to get the required intensity. 

5.     Try 220 and 40 for a blue toned effect

6.     Try 30 30 for a sepia look

7.     To emulate warm tone effect, try toning hue of 20 and then completely de-saturate to get a black and white result.  Gently increase saturation slider until you get the hint of orangey-yellow you require

8.     For cool tone effect, set hue at around 220 and a low saturation figure, around 20.

the result was a great effect:

Increase saturation without blocking out colours

Starting off with a basic image:

adding some simple effects e.g.

1. Open up under-saturated image (saturation.jpg)
2. Ctrl J to make a copy background layer
3. With new top layer active, go to filter, blur, Gaussian blur, enter radius of around 5 pixels.  (the whole image will soften)
4. Change the blending mode by selecting normal in the layers palette and then color (blurred effect will disappear as this allows only the colours to transfer to layer underneath)
5. Ctrl U.  Crank up saturation slider (can go further now) until you get to intensity you like.  Click ok.
   
   The result is a great sharpened image with highlighted tones
   
   
   
   Changing colours of individual items
   
   
   
   Starting off with a basic image:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   and applying the effects shown below:
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Lasso tool, make a rough selection around phone and postbox
   2. Hit ctrl J and punch into a new layer
   3. Hit ctrl U and in the Hue/sat palette, click Master, select Reds.  Crunch sliders together.
   4. Select left hand eye dropper, click on red colour of postbox.
   5. Move saturation slider to -100.  Holding shift key, click on areas until box turns to grey.
   6. Change colour by moving saturation slider back to centre and then adjust Hue until you’ve got colour you like.