Dramatic Color Effects

 

How to jazz up your photos with dramatic color effects.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has earned numerous Photoshop awards in design and illustration and has contributed writing to Photoshop User Magazine and PhotoshopElementsUser.com. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, Photoshop TV.

February 8th, 2008 by Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | 7 Comments

7 Comments

  1. Jay Waltmunson said on — March 28, 2008 @ 10:07 pm

    Corey, you have a great teaching style! I hope we can see more of these. Well paced and I learned a few tricks along the way (e.g., copying the channel to its own layer). One suggestion would be to supply the photo so that someone could ensure your exact steps, comparing to the before and after.

  2. Julie said on — March 31, 2008 @ 12:46 pm

    I tried to follow your instructions but I use Photoshop Elements 6.0. I got stuck when trying to use the channels after adding the Vivid Light Background copy. Can you post the same article using ELEMENTS?
    Thanks so much
    julie

  3. Corey Barker said on — April 23, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

    As this effect requires the use of channels, it can only be achieved in full version Photoshop. Elements doesn’t allow access to the color channels.

  4. Paulo Jordao said on — April 23, 2008 @ 6:50 pm

    Great tutorial… fun to watch you working.
    Thanks

  5. sasa said on — May 3, 2008 @ 12:56 pm

    very cool, quality tutorials

  6. Kayla said on — May 3, 2008 @ 11:48 pm

    How can I reset my channels back to normal, its stuck at grey… and i can no longer use colors!
    HELP!
    thanks,
    Kayla

  7. Venkatx5 said on — May 8, 2008 @ 2:19 am

    Cool Tutorial..
    Kayla : After Duplicating the Red Color Channel, you’ve to select the Top Most Channel which shows all Channels. :D

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