Photoshop for Designers: Color

This comprehensive course about color focuses on using Photoshop to manage, change, and edit color.

Introduction

• Welcome
• How to use the exercise files

1. Color Terms and Concepts

• Define color terms
• Use the color wheel to understand color relationships
• Create color themes
• Create a color theme from an image

2. Color Conventions in Photoshop

• Work with the Color Picker
• The role of foreground and background colors
• Choose sample colors
• Manage and share swatches
• Work with transparency
• Color channels

3. Color Modes in Photoshop

• Additive and subtractive color
• RGB
• CMYK
• Lab
• Indexed
• Grayscale
• Duotone
• Bitmap

4. Evaluate and Measure Color in Photoshop

• An overview of color management
• Use the Histogram panel
• Use the Info panel
• 8-bit and 16-bit images

5. Enhance Color in Photoshop

• Levels
• Set the black-and-white point
• Auto adjustments
• Curves
• Color correction

6. Techniques for Working with Color in Photoshop

• Create a signature color with selective saturation
• Desaturate to create a nostalgic image
• Build density in a sky
• Save a flat sky
• Design with Spot Color
• Creative toning with a gradient map
• Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette
• Replace colors
• Create a consistent look with color lookup tables and layer effects
• Match color

7. Combine Color and Black and White in Photoshop

• Combine color and black and white
• Convert color to high-contrast black and white
• Sepia tone and split tone
• Work with line art
• Hand color an image
• Infrared

Conclusion

• Next steps