Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx - Manual (Page 487)

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Clarity
Vibrance
Saturation
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Hue
Saturation
Luminance
Grayscale Mix
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Drag the Highlights, Lights, Darks, or Shadows slider in the nested Parametric tab. You can expand or contract the curve regions that the
sliders affect by dragging the region divider controls along the horizontal axis of the graph.
Drag a point on the curve in the nested Point tab. As you drag the point, the Input and Output tonal values are displayed beneath the
tone curve.
Choose an option from the Curve menu in the nested Point tab. The setting you choose is reflected in the Point tab, but not in the
settings in the Parametric tab. Medium Contrast is the default setting.
Select the Parametric Curve Targeted Adjustment tool in the toolbar and drag in the image. The Parametric Curve Targeted
Adjustment tool adjusts the Highlights, Lights, Darks, or Shadows curve region based on the values in the image where you click.
The Targeted Adjustment tool does not affect point curves.
Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation controls
You can change the color saturation of all colors by adjusting the Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation controls on the Basic tab. (To adjust saturation
for a specific range of colors, use the controls on the HSL / Grayscale tab.)
Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast, with greatest effect on the midtones. This setting is like a large-radius unsharp mask.
When using this setting, it is best to zoom in to 100% or greater. To maximize the effect, increase the setting until you see halos near the edge
details of the image and then reduce the setting slightly.
Adjusts the saturation so that clipping is minimized as colors approach full saturation. This setting changes the saturation of all lower-
saturated colors with less effect on the higher-saturated colors. Vibrance also prevents skin tones from becoming oversaturated.
Adjusts the saturation of all image colors equally from -100 (monochrome) to +100 (double the saturation).
HSL / Grayscale controls
You can use the controls in the HSL / Grayscale tab to adjust individual color ranges. For example, if a red object looks too vivid and distracting,
you can decrease the Reds values in the nested Saturation tab.
The following nested tabs contain controls for adjusting a color component for a specific color range:
Changes the color. For example, you can change a blue sky (and all other blue objects) from cyan to purple.
Changes how vivid or pure the color. For example, you can change a blue sky from gray to highly saturated blue.
Changes the brightness of the color range.
If you select Convert To Grayscale, you see only one nested tab:
Use controls in this tab to specify the contribution of each color range to the grayscale version of the image.
Adjust color or tone using the Targeted Adjustment tool
The Targeted Adjustment tool allows you to make tonal and color corrections by dragging directly on a photo. Using the Targeted Adjustment tool,
you can drag down on a blue sky to desaturate it, for example, or drag up on a red jacket to intensify its hue.
1. To make color adjustments with the Targeted Adjustment tool , click it in the toolbar and choose the type of correction you want to make:
Hue, Saturation, Luminance, or Grayscale Mix. Then, drag in the image.
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