Today I'm going to share with you some secret and amazing color recipes that you can use
with your landscapes in Photoshop.
But before we begin, we need to understand the concept a little bit.
So, whenever you import a raw photo into Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, do you notice something?
It has these profiles that we can apply - Adobe Standard, Adobe Vivid, so on and so forth.
Similarly, in Photoshop, you can assign profiles to pictures, even if they're not raw, you
can assign profiles and those profiles, even in Lightroom, or Adobe Camera Raw, get you
started with a pretty good look that you're satisfied with and then gives you a starting
point that you can work on later.
However, in Photoshop, you can totally go crazy with just the profile.
Here's how to apply it.
All you got to do is go to Edit at the top and then Assign Profile.
That's it.
Right now the image is that sRGB profile.
We can click on profile and change it to whatever we like.
Isn't that amazing?
Now in Windows, once you have this selected, with the scroll of the mouse hover over it,
with a scroll of the mouse you can try different profiles and see what looks good to you.
You can also use the arrow keys right there.
This is something that you can do in Windows.
I'm not very sure about Mac.
But anyway, you can actually select whatever you like.
So in this case, let's say I like something like e-sRGB, I can select that, hit OK.
But the problem with that is the profile of the complete document has now changed, which
is something we didn't want.
We wanted to keep it at sRGB and use profile just as Color Grading.
How can we do that?
We don't want to change anything for the document, but, we want to use those colors.
Here's how to do it.
Have a look at this document.
If we just click on this arrow and choose Document Profile, have a look, it has changed.
And it can be a mess if we upload it to websites or send it somewhere.
We have to keep it at sRGB or Adobe RGB, whatever your choice is.
So, here's how to do it.
Let's go back.
So this was our image, make a copy of the background layer - with the background layer
selected, press Ctrl or Command + J. Now, right click on it and choose Convert to Smart
Object.
Now as we have discussed before, whenever we convert a layer into a Smart Object, everything
inside of it is protected.
It creates a nest around it.
So, if you double click on the thumbnail of the Smart Object, another document shows up
showing you the contents of that nest.
Whatever you change inside that nest is not going to affect the entire document.
In this nested document, you can change it to whatever you want.
Go to Edit - Assign Profile, hit OK, that's fine.
We're going to choose e-sRGB, hit OK and save it.
Press Ctrl or Command + S. Now when you go back to the original document, have a look,
this has been updated and the profile stays to be as a RGB.
Have a look.
Here's the before, here's the after.
Now this is as a layer.
If you think it's too much, you can control the Opacity and you have control over everything.
So let's say I want to keep it at Opacity of 31.
Or even better, you can use Blend If with it.
So let's increase the Opacity to 100%.
Let's say I want this effect only on the highlights.
So, double click on the right hand side of the layer, take it away from the shadows by
taking the slider of the underlying layer from left to right, just like this.
Now this is very harsh, hold the Alt key or the Option key, click on the slider, break
it apart to both sides, hit OK.
And this is a particular effect.
You can create one more copy of this one - Ctrl or Command + J and and this one, we don't
want any Blend If.
So clear it up.
Right click on it and choose Clear Layer Style and simply decrease the Opacity.
So, we're going to keep the Opacity at somewhere about 30%.
There you have it.
Here's the before, here's the after.
Interesting, isn't it?
Now you can make a group of both of these.
Select the first one, hold the Ctrl or Command, select the second one, Ctrl or Command + G.
So, once we have the group, we can create a mask by clicking on the Mask button.
And then take the brush with black as the foreground color and you can just erase this
area because this area is getting too saturated.
So. we're just going to create a gradient right there.
Choose a gradient, drag from top to bottom.
There we are.
It's not affecting the sky and these areas are looking pretty nice and colorful.
If you also don't want these areas to get affected, you can take the brush and paint
that area in black, if you wish.
So I'm going to keep the flow at somewhere about 10% and get some brightness in that
area.
Have a look.
That's how you can even use Color Profile to add some vibrant and brilliant colors to
your landscape.
Now, I said landscapes because it works great with landscapes.
I've tried it on portraits.
Sometimes it works great, sometimes it doesn't.
It might mess up the skin tone but, with landscapes, this works amazingly.
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