

Chapter 04 Skills Review:
Incorporating Color Techniques
A) Work with color to transform an image
- Start Photoshop.
- Open PS 4·4.psd from the drive and folder where you store your Data Files, then save it as Firetruck.
- Make sure the rulers appear in pixels, and that the default foreground and background colors display.
- Use the Eyedropper Tool to sample the red color at 90 X/165 Y using the guides to help.
- Use the Paint Bucket Tool to apply the new foreground color to the Background layer.
- Undo your last step using either the Edit menu or the History palette.
- Switch the foreground and background colors.
- Save your work.
B) Use the Color Picker and the Swatches palette
- Use the Set foreground color button to open the Color Picker dialog box.
- Click the R, G:, and B: option buttons, one at a time. Note how the color palette changes.
- With the B: option button selected, click the palette in the upper·left corner, then click OK.
- Switch the foreground and background colors.
- Add the foreground color (red) to the Swatches palette using a meaningful name of your choice.
- Save your work.
C) Place a border around an image
- Make Layer 1 active (if it is not already active).
- Revert to the default foreground and background colors.
- Create a border by applying a 2·pixel outside stroke to the firetruck.
- Save your work.
D) Blend colors using the Gradient Tool
- Change the foreground color to the fourth swatch from the right in the top row of the Swatches palette (35% Gray).
- Switch foreground and background colors.
- Use the new red swatch Ihat you added previously as the foreground color.
- Make the Background layer active.
- Use the Gradient Tool, apply the Angle Gradient with its deflault settings, then using the guides to help, drag the pointer from 145 X170 Y to 35 X/165 Y.
- Save your work, and turn off the rulers display.
E) Add color to a grayscale image
- Open PS 4-5.psd, then save it as Firetruck Colorized.
- Change the color mode to RGB Color.
- Open the Hue/Saturation dialog box, then select the Colorize check box.
- Drag the sliders so the text boxes show the following values: 175, 56, and -30, then click OK.
- Save your work.
F) Use filters, opacity, and blending modes
- Use the Sharpen filter to sharpen the image.
- Open the Fade Sharpen dialog box by using the Edit menu, change the opacITy to 40%, change the mode to Hard Light, then save your work.
- Open the Color Balance dialog box.
- Change the color level settings so the text boxes show the following values: +61, -15, and +20.
- Turn off the rulers display if necessary.
- Save your work.
G) Match colors
- Open PS 4-6.tif, then select the light green in the cat's eye.
- Select the white areas of the fire truck in Firetruck.psd. (Hint: You can click on multi· pie areas using the Magic Wand Tool)
- Use the Match Color dialog box to change the white in Layer 1of the Firetruck image to green (in the cat's eye). Compare your images to the figure below.
- Save your work.
- Exit Photoshop.
Source: "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Revealed" by Elizabeth Eisner Reding