User Guide

CHAPTER 4
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Fixing Your Photos
• Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer,
or open an existing Hue/Saturation adjustment
layer. (See “Using adjustment and fill layers” on
page 101.)
The two color bars in the dialog box represent the
colors in their order on the color wheel. The upper
bar shows the color before the adjustment; the
lower bar shows how the adjustment affects all
hues at full saturation.
3 For Edit, choose which colors to adjust:
• Choose Master to adjust all colors at once.
• Choose one of the other preset color ranges
listed for the color you want to adjust. (An
adjustment slider appears between the color
bars, which you can use to edit any range of
hues. For information on how to modify the
slider’s range, see “To modify the range of an
adjustment slider” after step 7.)
4 For Hue, enter a value or drag the slider until
the colors appear as you want.
The values displayed in the text box reflect the
number of degrees of rotation around the wheel
from the pixel’s original color. A positive value
indicates clockwise rotation, a negative value
counterclockwise rotation. Values range from
–180 to +180. (See “About the color wheel” on
page 65.)
5 For Saturation, enter a value or drag the slider
to the right to increase the saturation or to the left
to decrease it.
The color shifts away from or toward the center
of the wheel, relative to the beginning color
values of the selected pixels. Values range from
–100 to +100.
6 For Lightness, enter a value or drag the slider to
the right to increase the lightness or to the left to
decrease it. Values range from –100 to +100.
7 Click OK.
To modify the range of an adjustment slider:
1 In the Hue/Saturation dialog box, choose an
individual color from the Edit menu.
2 Do any of the following to the adjustment
slider:
• Drag one of the triangles to adjust the amount
of color fall-off without affecting the range.
• Drag one of the light gray bars to adjust the
range without affecting the amount of fall-off.
• Drag the dark-gray center part to move the
entire adjustment slider, selecting a different
color area.
• Drag one of the vertical white bars next to the
dark gray center part to adjust the range of the
color component. Increasing the range
decreases the fall-off, and vice versa.
• To move the color bar and the adjustment slider
bar together, Ctrl-drag (Windows) or
Command-drag (Mac OS) the color bar.
Adjustment slider
A. Adjusts fall-off without affecting range B. Adjusts range
without affecting fall-off C. Adjusts range of color
component D. Moves entire slider
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