Brightening colors

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Mark
Feb 15, 2005
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what is the best way to brighten the colors of scans made of drawings and colored with water coloring? For instance yellow is dull, is there a way i can brighten it without losing detail in the drawing?
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Mike Russell
Feb 15, 2005
Mark wrote:
what is the best way to brighten the colors of scans made of drawings and colored with water coloring? For instance yellow is dull, is there a way i can brighten it without losing detail in the drawing?

Here are three ways.

1) use Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation to bump up the colors.
2) as above, but uaing an adjustment layer. This has the advantage that it
is more adjustable after the face, and you can use a layer mask to adjust isolated areas.
3) convert to Lab, and make the a and b curves steeper with curves. —

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Robert Feinman
Feb 15, 2005
In article <90fQd.4026$>,
says…
Mark wrote:
what is the best way to brighten the colors of scans made of drawings and colored with water coloring? For instance yellow is dull, is there a way i can brighten it without losing detail in the drawing?

Here are three ways.

1) use Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation to bump up the colors.
2) as above, but uaing an adjustment layer. This has the advantage that it
is more adjustable after the face, and you can use a layer mask to adjust isolated areas.
3) convert to Lab, and make the a and b curves steeper with curves.
You can also try picking a selective color either with the menu option or with the magic wand. Then create a curves adjustment layer and try lowering the blue values.
—
Robert D Feinman
Landscapes, Cityscapes and Panoramic Photographs
http://robertdfeinman.com
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Mark
Feb 16, 2005
Thanks for the feedback
Mark
"Robert Feinman" wrote in message
In article <90fQd.4026$>,
says…
Mark wrote:
what is the best way to brighten the colors of scans made of drawings and colored with water coloring? For instance yellow is dull, is there a way i can brighten it without losing detail in the drawing?

Here are three ways.

1) use Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation to bump up the colors.
2) as above, but uaing an adjustment layer. This has the advantage that
it
is more adjustable after the face, and you can use a layer mask to
adjust
isolated areas.
3) convert to Lab, and make the a and b curves steeper with curves.
You can also try picking a selective color either with the menu option or with the magic wand. Then create a curves adjustment layer and try lowering the blue values.
—
Robert D Feinman
Landscapes, Cityscapes and Panoramic Photographs
http://robertdfeinman.com
mail:

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