Set up everything as before (Choose the same document as the source and the background image for the Layer.Īt first it seems nothing is happening. Turn on “Ignore Selection.”when applying it. Look for something that should be gray that’s obviously being hit by the sunlight not the shadow, otherwise, you’re not going to get the color. Or if you want to be even more accurate, what you want to do is look for an area that would normally be neutral gray, say this building here, and just make a selection around there. So here’s what we do, we grab our Marquee Tool and we’re going to make a selection around here where we’ve got this color It’s selecting all the colors from the sky and the ground and it’s creating kind of an average color and it’s just not going to work. It’s going to get weird now because it’s selecting the blues. If we repeat all the previous steps this is what’s going to happen. If we go down to our adjustments, and we go down to match color, this is not going to work and I’ll show you why. Now, you could adjust the brightness of her if you want to using Curves or do that on the next image, but this is not bad.Įxample #2 Advanced Match Color with Selections There’s the before, where she was much warmer than the background,Īnd the after, where it matches. I’m just going to apply it and let’s see the before and the after. I’m noticing that this scene is a little bit desaturated, so I’m actually taking this less than 100 because we want to match that. If I go all the way up, it’s going to go very, very colorful. If I bring this down, notice it’s going to go completely black and white. But the next thing is the Color Intensity. It was getting blown out and losing details.Īll right, so we can come back and we can adjust things later, don’t worry. It makes it easy to kind of see the color toningĪnd the next thing we want to adjust is the luminance (the brightness). I’m looking at the colors here in the white, and that’s why I chose this woman in the white dress. Don’t worry about the toning or everything right now, just the color. So let’s bring it up until we get to about the right amount. The fade slider is how much of that color is applied, so it’s kind of like a volume control for the color. Don’t worry, relax, we’ve got a few steps we’re going to take care of. Now, immediately, it’s going to apply the color for the background. Under Layer: choose the background layer. Under Source, choose the right source “roof top balcony with cityscape” That is the document we’re working in. Under the Match Color, we want to choose the background for the overall toning from this background and apply it to our woman. Make sure you have selected the layer that you want to change the color on (the woman). And I’m not going to go through those steps because I’ve got lots and lots of tutorials on how to do that. I’m going to show you how to make the colors match.Įxample #1 Basic Match Color in Photoshop This tutu will show you how to match them. When you are compositing or combining images from different sources such as your own photos or photos from different stock sites, oftentimes the colors don’t match. I have a photograph of the woman and two different background because I’m going to show you two different scenarios with two different techniques: A simpler, more monochromatic cooler image and a more complex image with multiple colors. I’ve grabbed some photographs from Adobe Stock. I’m going to show you how to match the colors between backgrounds and objects once you’ve cut them out and combined the different photos or otherwise known as compositing. See info here Matching Colors When Combining Photos If you want to become a stock contributor You can also contribute your own photos, videos and illustrations and make a little extra income. You can get 10 free images right now to try this out So without further rambling from me, let’s jump in and do this! Don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter and become part of the CAFE CREW! Who? That’s you □ (Ok, I just made that up). This tool isn’t new in Photoshop, but I’m surprised how many people don’t know that it even exists. People really struggle to match the colors on different layers when they are combining photos in Photoshop. This is one of those tutorials that has been requested for quite a long time.
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