Making The Colors In Your Photo Pop
One of my favorite Flickr groups is the Technique Group. There are so many talented people there that offer up their tips.
One of the great discussions is one called “Tutorial: Make Your Colors Pop.” The flickr user macaddict offers a great tutorial on bringing out the colors of your photo. It basically consists of changing the mode to “Lab Color”, making some changes for the a, b, and Lightness channels, then switching the mode back to RGB. It sounds simple, but there are some great results. To see the tutorial and see some examples, head to the Flickr Discussion.
After playing with it for a while, I finally determined just the right settings for my photos. I then created a Photoshop Action for me to use in the future. Just in case some of you would like to give it a try, I’ll make it available for you too. Just download it and install the action from your Actions pallette in Photoshop. You can download it here.
Here is one example. First is original, second is “popped”.
September 21st, 2006 at 2:25 pm
[...] A couple days ago I offered a Photoshop action to make the color in your photos pop, I received a few emails asking how to load these actions. Since I plan to release more actions in the future, I thought it would be a good idea to get up a quick tutorial. It’s really a simple process. [...]
September 1st, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for sharing the color pop action. Can I install this to pse5 windows version?