Selective colour effects

How to adjust the hue, saturation and brightness of specific colours

- George Cairns

By and large, the camera on your iPhone does a fine job of capturing a subject's true colours. If there are problems with colour in a shot (such as green and magenta tints or blue and orange colour casts), then these are easily fixed using the sliders in Photos’ Colour and White Balance panels. However, Photos also enables you to perform more creative colour adjustments to catch the eye on social media feeds. Thanks to macOS Photos' Selective Colour panel, you can target specific colours in a shot and change their hue, saturation and luminance (brightness) values. This extra level of control enables you to alter the colour of a subject's clothes, darken the sky to make clouds pop out more and even create a ‘spot colour’ effect where a single colour draws the eye to a particular subject in a black and white conversion. We'll also demonstrate how Photoshop's powerful masking tools can give you even more control over your selective colour adjustments.

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