In this video, I'm going to show you
a powerful masking technique inside of Camera Raw
to target specific colors.
The first step is to convert the background layer into a Smart Object
you can right click on the layer and select convert to Smart Object.
A Smart Object is a container that allows you to apply
nondestructive adjustments, distortions, filters and transformations.
In other words, you can always come back and make changes.
Next, I'm going to go into the filter menu and select Camera Raw filter.
The Camera Raw filter gives you total control of tonal and color adjustments.
You can also apply selective adjustments using the Adjustment Brush.
You can click on the Adjustment Brush
and paint over the areas that you want to affect.
So, I can just simply paint over the yellow parachute and the reflection below.
If you can't see what you paint it over, you can click on this checkbox
"Mask Options" to see the areas that you painted over.
You can obviously click on the Eraser Tool and subtract from that selection.
This will be a little more tedious
and in some cases it might be a little difficult for you to deselect some areas
that have a lot of detail, like in the reflection here in the water.
Now, the white overlay indicates the areas that will be affected by
my selective adjustments.
All the sliders and controls on the right hand side.
Let me show you what I mean.
I'll disable the mask and scroll down into the Hue slider and I can
click-and-drag to Shift the hue of these colors.
Notice that the parachute is now green,
but I'm also affecting the water, making it purple.
Because those were the areas that I painted over.
And to avoid this, we're going to create a mask,
but not a Layer Mask in Camera Raw you cannot use traditional Layer Mask,
but we have something that is just as powerful.
So, let me show you how that works.
From the Range Mask dropdown Select Color.
Photoshop will automatically select the Sample Color tool, the Eyedropper tool
and I can click directly over the image to select a color.
For example, if I click on the parachute,
I'll select the original yellow that was found here
and that is the color that Photoshop will target
to apply my adjustments
and notice that when I click on that,
most of the color that we had around the water disappears.
It's not a perfect selection, but it's pretty close.
If I hold Alt Windows, option and the Mac and click on the Color Range slider,
you will see the mask.
White reveals, black conceals.
The areas in white will reveal the effect
and the areas in black will hide the effect.
And I can also drag the slider to the left
to subtract pixels that are similar to the ones that I'm sampling from,
or to add pixels that are closer to the ones that I'm sampling from.
In this case, I probably want a lower color range
just to effect the parachute and the water.
But notice that I'm not quite affecting the parachute here.
I can add to the sampled pixels
by holding Shift and clicking
again with the eyedropper.
Notice now that I have to eyedroppers here indicating that I have to sample areas
and I can even do something much, much better.
If you hold Shift, you can click-and-drag and create a selection.
And now I have a range of pixels selected.
Also notice that the eyedropper icon also has a selection icon next to it as well.
And that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to add more ranges of colors to my selection.
Like so.
And again, I'm holding Shift and Clicking-and-dragging
to create those sample points.
You can only create up to five sample points.
We have one, two, three, four, five.
If I click again while holding Shift
to create a sixth one, Photoshop will tell me that I cannot do that.
I am only limited to five samples.
I'll close this out.
And I can now come in and make adjustments with the Hue slider
or any other sliders found in this panel.
Also, notice how I'm not affecting this area here in the water.
I can always come back with the Brush Tool
and make sure that I add to the current selection;
and I can just paint over those areas accordingly.
And of course, Photoshop will remember
my color Layer Mask.
When you're done, you can press OK.
And since we're working with a Smart Object,
you can always come back and edit this adjustment
by double-clicking on the Camera Raw filter label in the Layers Panel.
When you do,
the Camera Raw filter will open up again
and you can adjust that any way that you want.
To bring up the Brush Tool once again, you can press the K key on the keyboard,
enable that point and you can make any adjustment that you want.
Also, if you decide to try out this technique,
feel free to share it on Instagram with the hashtag #PTCVIDS,
I would love to see what you came up with.
My name is Jesus Ramirez.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'll talk to you again in the next Photoshop tutorial.