Photoshop for Designers: Color

Course details

In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French shows you how to correct, manage, edit, and change color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes instruction on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color, and more.

Learning objectives
The color wheel and color relationships
Managing color swatches
Transparency and color channels
Working with the Color Picker
Additive and subtractive color
Working with color modes
Performing color correction
Saturation and desaturation
Designing with spot color
Using adjustments: levels, curves, and white balance
Using auto color adjustments
Matching color

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - How to use the exercise files

1. Color Terms and Concepts

03 - Define color terms
04 - Use the color wheel to understand color relationships
05 - Create color themes
06 - Create a color theme from an image

2. Color Conventions in Photoshop

07 - Work with the Color Picker
08 - The role of foreground and background colors
09 - Choose sample colors
10 - Manage and share swatches
11 - Work with transparency
12 - Color channels

3. Color Modes in Photoshop

13 - Additive and subtractive color
14 - RGB
15 - CMYK
16 - Lab
17 - Indexed
18 - Grayscale
19 - Duotone
20 - Bitmap

4. Evaluate and Measure Color in Photoshop

21 - An overview of color management
22 - Use the Histogram panel
23 - Use the Info panel
24 - 8-bit and 16-bit images

5. Enhance Color in Photoshop

25 - Levels
26 - Set the black-and-white point
27 - Auto adjustments
28 - Curves
29 - Color correction

6. Techniques for Working with Color in Photoshop

30 - Create a signature color with selective saturation
31 - Desaturate to create a nostalgic image
32 - Build density in a sky
33 - Save a flat sky
34 - Design with Spot Color
35 - Creative toning with a gradient map
36 - Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette
37 - Replace colors
38 - Create a consistent look with color lookup tables and layer effects
39 - Match color

7. Combine Color and Black and White in Photoshop

40 - Combine color and black and white
41 - Convert color to high-contrast black and white
42 - Sepia tone and split tone
43 - Work with line art
44 - Hand color an image
45 - Infrared

Conclusion

46 - Next steps