Photoshop Color Balance Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trade mark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay so, on this next tutorial I am actually going to be touching a little bit on color balance. Now for those of you guys who do not understand or are beginning Photoshop color balance option are hidden away under Image, Adjustments, and it is right below the Curves. And as you can see, I will zoom in for you guys, Command B on Mac and control B on PC will bring up the dialog box so I am going to do that real quickly. Here is the color balance dialog box. Now, for those of you guys who don't understand how this works I am going to explain to you how it works. Basically, if you take a picture and you camera is not balanced to the type of light that you are using your images is going to come out with a yellow tint, or a reddish tint, or a little bit magenta, whatever it is you can change it in Photoshop once you have taken the picture. Say for instance you got a really, really. Say for instance you had your sunlight color balance on your camera and you are shooting indoors you are going to get yellows everywhere. So say for instance your picture is very yellow what you would do is you would add blue. So as you can see right here I am on this little dialog box and I am on the slider right here. So you would decrease the yellow by adding blue and you would just touch it just a little bit like that. And say for instance your picture is red, what you would do is add cyan to your picture and you would bring your dialog box this way and you would take the red out of your photo. A lot of times the red is the issue with the picture so you would just drop it down, drop it down. And you would see your reds going away. Another thing about the dialog box and color balance is to have a tone balance so you can actually individually change what is exactly red or what is exactly yellow. So say for instance all the highlights in your image are real red do you could click on that and add cyan and that would take away the highlight red. But for the most part I usually just keep it on mid-tones. And you have a preview box right here that you can click on and off so that you can see what it looks like. And that is basically it for color balance and usually color balance is the very next thing I do once I mess with my curves. Some people like to use color balance first that way they get the original color that should be manipulates later on with saturation and contrast and all that. So basically, that is color balance in Photoshop."