A Color Correcting and Sharpening Tutorial in Photoshop
Another video tutorial - this one talks us though correcting color and sharpening images in Photoshop.
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Another video tutorial - this one talks us though correcting color and sharpening images in Photoshop.
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93 Responses to “A Color Correcting and Sharpening Tutorial in Photoshop”
June 4th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Whow
Me liked that a lot.
Just a beginner and I learnt heaps.
Yes do more do more thank you lots
Paul [SMILE]
June 4th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Thanks for the video. Just for clarification A is actually Red / Green & B is Yellow and Blue.
June 4th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Thank you; it is quite helpful for novices like me. Sure I am going to try it out.
June 4th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Nice tutorial.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Good video, helpful to have some of the simpler techniques shown to novice Photoshop users.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
LAB mode’s new to me - this succinct and interesting video was a real eye-opener. Definitely don’t leave it at this! do more!
June 4th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Are there any tutorials around for Paint Shop Pro.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Great tutorial!! txs!!
June 4th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Echoing Puplet,
Please do more!
June 4th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Thanks a lot for the tutorial! I’d been using unsharp mask pretty blindly since I learned about it, but your expanations of what the threshold and radius do (and numbers to stick around) were particularly helpful! More of these please!!!!
June 4th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Excellent, just what I have been looking for. I have been struggling with photoshop without a clue, just trial and error. Please do more.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Thank you for the tutorial! I do not have photoshop but my current editing software does have unsharp mask and sharpen options. I’ve been trying to sharpen some images I took recently of a dance recital. USM and sharpen were the suggested tools to use, didn’t know much about them but now, thanks to you, I understand them a bit better. Thank you!
June 5th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Keep ‘em coming I really enjoyed it.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Cheers! Very helpful… just processed so pictures I took on my last day trip- some more please!
June 5th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Great stuff. What about importing RAW images? Would you just import as-shot then use LAB?
June 5th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Thanks for the concise and easy-to-follow tutorial. I’ve tried your techniques on a few of my photos and they look so much better.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Thanks. Pretty cool. I use Lab mode for sharpening as well. If you use Unsharp Mask on your Lightness channel only, you can avoid a lot of the haloing you might get with oversharpening. Although, Smart Sharpen is starting to overtake that old method a bit.
Nice to see that everyone has slightly different techniques.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:19 am
I thought it was a great tutorial, very useful for people new to photoshop.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Good information but lousy presentation. I don’t mean to be critical, but the creator of the tutorial should have spent some time practicing the demonstration before doing the video screen capture. I felt like he was uncomfortable making the demonstration, and that made it distracting to watch.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Very useful tutorial. I found the pace to be just right. I don’t agree with the previous comment’s criticism at all.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:58 am
By the way, your calendar is off by one day - today is June 4, not June 5.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Great tips, thanks for producing this and I hope you continue to produce them.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:04 am
This was an excellent tutorial for beginners. Yes, you should do more!
June 5th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Hey,
Great tutorial,
Keep them coming, we just love it..
Cheers
Chin
June 5th, 2007 at 2:32 am
That’s a lot of um, pausing, and clicking. He really should have practiced more.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:33 am
Great tutorial, i learned a lot! Keep up the good work!
June 5th, 2007 at 4:29 am
I wasn’t able to view the video of the color corrections and sharpening tutorial. Is there another path? It the tutorial available commercially. I can really use this kind of info.
Thanks,
boreeder
June 5th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Thanks for the tutorial, more please!
They are really helpful to someone who is dyslexic & finds it difficult to trawl through the very large books on photo shop!
Bite sized is good!
*G*
June 5th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Excellent! Thank you for taking the time to produce this tutorial.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Thanks for this usefull tutorial. I am curious about what the 2 last commenters have produced which is as usefull as this…
June 5th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Awesome swift and to the point tut, very nice, lookin forward to more of em!!
Denios
June 5th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Thanks for this. Very useful. Who is the author of this tutorial? I’d love to be able to check out any others he has on YouTube.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Thank you very much for this tutorial - I’ve been playing around with the techique and I love the “punch” it’s added to my pictures! Very useful!
June 5th, 2007 at 7:50 am
I think your tutorial was great… I have used Unsharp mask, and like Jenn (above), I was doing it blindly… moving things around until I thought it looked right. Good to have some numbers to go by. The new color looked great, and I can’t wait to try this! (I watched the tutorial a second time, just to take notes!) Please consider more! Thanks! :-)
June 5th, 2007 at 8:08 am
no one said the comments were teaching anything theyre just saying he didnt present it very good which i agree with.
Dont act like one of those people who just cant stand any constructive critisism I hate when people do that
-Evan
June 5th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I’ll go ahead and defend myself on this.
I’ll admit, I haven’t made anything that is much use to the general world. Mostly I’ve made things for very specific projects that don’t help much outside of the world in which they were created.
What I have done recently is some presentation of other materials. I have a 2 hour radio show where something always goes wrong with the equipment(easily the worst part of a student run radio station) and I have less empty space and um’s in my whole show than he had in the first minute. I’ll admit, the same mistakes are there for me. It happens when you have a live show that you do by yourself.
I also send songs to a few podcasts that include an introduction recorded by me. I routinely spend about an hour getting a 10-15 second introduction recorded correctly because if I’m going to send something out into the world I’m going to make sure that it’s good. Nobody forced this guy to make the tutorial (from what I saw), so he had all the time that he needed to make it presentable.
Presentation is part of the total package. And he loses points on that front for the same reason this site would lose points if this site had yellow text on a white background. It doesn’t matter if the information is the best in the world, if it’s full of distractions then people won’t be able to get as much information out of it as possible.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Tutorial was very informative. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
June 5th, 2007 at 10:06 am
thanks for the tutorial. i recently started doing my post-processing in aperture, i am trying to dig into aperture’s sharpen and edge-sharpen tools.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Um, I liked it a lot and don’t think the nervous chatter was distracting at all. Do it some more Dude. You’ll gain more confidence the next time.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:23 am
To quote Borat: “I LIIIKEEEEE”
Seriously.. nice and light. Not to beginner with good points.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
More more more!!!
I’ve been playing with PS in all its forms and incarnations for years, but this is the FIRST time anyone has ever explained lab color sharpening and unsharp mask to me.
I just feel like I’ve been driving on autopilot and luck. Now I feel at least somewhat ready to work on good images!
Thanks!
June 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Oh, and I completely disagree with the idea that presentation somehow limits what we’re able to get from a tutorial.
If I really want to learn, I’ll be focused on the material.
Which I guess is why I’m loading up old photos on CS3 and not trying to count the “ums” and “clicks”.
I learned something, regardless of the presentation, which I STILL can’t recall being poor.
Thanks for this, and please bring us more.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. It was very helpful, especially the part about sharpening, something I have always had difficulty with. BTW - recently I’ve been using High-Pass Sharpening instead of Unsharp Mask. Do you have any opinion about which is better?
B.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Being a newb to PS I found this very helpful. It was quick and to the point. Thanks so much.
June 5th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Thanks for the tutorial!!! Please post more!!!
June 5th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
I’m glad to see that my work process is similar to yours. I’ve just pieced some things from here and there and it’s reassuring to see someone do the same. I never messed with manually setting the white and black points by adjusting the RGB values. Good stuff. Keep them coming.
BTW, I didn’t mind the pausing either.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Hi, the tutorial is really informative thanx for the same.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I found this information to be quite useful for me and my students. Wish there was some way I could save the file. There was too much emphasis placed on the presentation. i have seen some better and professionally done, but i have also encountered much much MUCH worse from our IT guys.
Keep up the tips, my yearbook kids appreciate it.
June 5th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I liked it. A LOT! Thanks :)
June 5th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Robin - when this post was published it was 5 June in Australia - where I live :-)
June 6th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Hi!
I also liked this tutorial very much, regardless of the “um’s”.I would really like to learn more about Photoshop, I hate being a “rookie”, trying everything by myself with no guidelines to apply to.Please send me information each time you post a tutorial! It would mean the world to me! And, like Paul sayd, it would be nice to download the file somehow….
Keep up the good work!
June 6th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Thanks for this Darren! This is probably the most I have learned in any 7 minute period in a long time. I especially appreciate the demo in curves . . I often struggle with skin tones and I’m sure this will prove very helpful.
PLEASE post more tutorials!!
ebe
June 6th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Thank you so much for this is a wonderful tutorial. Would love to see more tutorials from you soon. Cheers!
June 6th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Great info.
Just what a novice like myself is looking for.
Keep up the good work.
Much appreciated.
Thanks Neil.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Thank you so much for this is a wonderful tutorial
June 7th, 2007 at 12:54 am
I want to thank you for a job well done, and applaud you for this help with photoshop. I hope you find the time to share more help.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:54 am
I’ll basically reiterate what everyone has already said. Please keep these coming. I find it much simpler to grasp a concept by watching it being done, rather than reading it from a book. Thanks! :)
June 7th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Thank you so much, very imformative and helpful - keep them coming. Loved the speed you spoke at, gave me enough time to write the steps down without having to replay. Don’t worry about the “Ums” the more you do the less “Ums” will be there.
Thanks.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Thanks for tutorial,
useful, but I prefer to do the same with layers.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
That was a great tutorial, thanks! I’ve been trying out your technique, and I realize it is now 1:30 in the morning!
June 10th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Great stuff. Really easy to listen to.
June 10th, 2007 at 12:39 am
good, helpful information. i really liked the casual style and quick pace of the tutorial…some on the ones i’ve seen online just drag on and on…
Thanks!!
June 10th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Great!!! Thanks for all the info please make more!!! Thank you again for showing us how.
June 10th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
It made we want to upgrade from Photoshop Elements to the full version. Very helpful.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Thanks! Really nice tut - learned a lot and can’t wait to try it out! (I took notes as you went along)…. :)
More, please!
June 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Finally, an opportunity to learn more of what PhotoShop can do without spending hours thumbing through the manual or clicking through the endless ‘help’ selections. It’s so much easier having your own instructor explaining the steps as they are done. Thanks and PLEASE continue this great service!!
June 14th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Very nice tutorial, informative and to the point.
Thanks. Please make more.
June 15th, 2007 at 12:49 am
NO !!!! don’t stop please…
June 16th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Yes please make more. While the presentation was a little clumsy, I didn’t find it distractingly so. I actually didn’t really care that it was a little clumsy. If less rehearsals = more videos, then I’d happily make that compromise. Please make more!
June 18th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Holy crap! I made this tutorial. =) Glad you guys liked it. Wish someone had told me it was posted here — this looks like a good website.
June 18th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
(Sorry for the double-post…)
This presentation presentation was actually my third attempt. I can’t present any better than this right now — I’m working on my communication skills but these things take time. ;) Toastmasters and reading out loud to myself are starting to improve my articulation, but for the mean time you’ll have to live with the good content / bad presentation mix.
My YouTube username is DigitalAssassin, I don’t have much else up right now, but feel free to poke around.
All comments & criticisms are welcome.
June 18th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
thanks Luke - will email you shortly.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Thank you. Please do more……
June 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Very useful, and don’t worry too much about your articualtion. Your audio came across plenty clear and you have a friendly tone. Keep ‘em comin!
July 10th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Great job … thanks
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:49 am
Very great tutorial,look forward to seeing more from you.
Thanks
July 24th, 2007 at 5:52 am
The color correction in LAB mode is new. Curious, what’s the difference from adjusting Saturation?
July 24th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Why is every thing CS2/3 these days.
Where are all the DVD’s/tutorials for other programs such as elements5 for one cause I just bought it.
I am sure people with Elements3/4 and other photoshop editions would like to see DVD’s avaliable for their editions of photoshop.
Any other DVD’s in the works?
RSVP
Neil Elements 5 apprentice.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:10 am
thanks going to try curves right now
July 24th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Adjusting inside Lab Colour doesn’t affect brightness and gives you far more control than just boosting saturation — you can change the balance of colour at the same time.
July 27th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
That was amazing!! Thank you so much for your tutorial, YES please do more. I use Photoshop for editing for ebay and personal, but had NO IDEA how incredible the software was. THANKS AGAIN!! MORE MORE MORE! Regards, Melinda
August 14th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Wow. Very cool. Thanks. As always, a request, finding white and black points for using curves on the last step in this photo were fairly obvious. How do you find white/blacks points on a photo were its not so obvious.. thanks again. i appreciate the time you took to make this video tutorial.
cheers. joe
August 30th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for the tutorial! I loved it!
September 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Thank you! I’m glad I found this tutorial, I’ve been taking a lot of pictures using a Rebel XTi lately and was starting to get frustrated with the quality and colors of my pictures… I’ve managed to save a lot of pictures thanks to these tips. Thanks!
Juan
September 16th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Thanks man…keep the good work going…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Excellent! I was having trouble with color-adjustments, but I did not know about the lab-colors. Now I do :-) Looking forward to more.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Thanks for the tutorial! The lab mode technique does wonders. Keep on sharing!
November 20th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I appreciate your time and effort in making this video. I have never used the lab color to control color. Thanks. Please do more tutorials.
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Fantastic tutorial!! thanks for sharing.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:54 am
Hi!
I downloaded the trial version of CS3 - the RAW feature was part of what I wanted to check out. I found a lot of merit in your tutorial. Thank you! Been battling to get my sharpened images not to look grainy. I must say, having shot film for many years AND having had these pics SUCCESSFULLY placed as High Res. images on CD are causing me to consider returning to film. But then … perhaps some more tutorials like these would help?
Thanks again!
E
October 5th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Hi, Really enjoyed the easygoing approach to this topic. I am always trying to improve the photos I take for selling dolls and often wondered about the mysteries of the unsharp mask as well as more to brightening colors than the typical sliders.
Thanks so much!
Now tell me how to improve my macro shots.
December 6th, 2008 at 8:44 am
That was really excellent… I learned a lot.
Thanks!
December 7th, 2008 at 3:13 am
That was very insightful. Thank you!
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