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 TLR Color Enhance

This is a creative color enhancement action set from The Light's Right Studio: a Photoshop action set that make it easy to creative enhancements to the colors in your image. TLR Color Enhance is a Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3 action set that is also compatible with earlier versions of Photoshop. It is intended to be part of a future TLR Professional Photographic Effects Toolkit.

The effects in TLR Color Enhance use Layer Set/Groups in Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3.

 

 

There are three groups of actions. One group lightens/darkens specific ranges of colors. A second group adjusts skin tones. A third group adjusts the color balance of highlights/shadows.

 

Lighten/Darken Color Ranges

The available actions for adjusting color ranges include Reds, Greens, Blues, Cyans, Magentas, and Yellows.

Each of the actions for adjusting color ranges creates two layers. One layer adjusts the lightness/darkness of the specified color range. The second adds a saturation boost. Both layers have a default opacity of 25% to allow for plenty of opportunity to adjust the effect.

 

Lighten Greens • Darken Greens

(Hover mouse over text to see examples)

 

 

Enhancing Skin Tones

There are two actions for adjusting skin tones: Warm Skin Tones and Cool Skin Tones.

Each action for adjusting skin tones creates two layers. One layer adjusts the color balance for skin tones. The second adds a saturation boost. The color balance layer has a default opacity of 50% and the saturation layer has a default opacity of 25% to allow opportunity to adjust the effect.

 

 

Cool Skin Tones • Warm Skin Tones

(Hover mouse over text to see examples)

 

 

Adjusting Highlights and Shadows

There is a single action for adjusting highlights/shadows.

Three layers are created. One is used to cool shadows. The second is used to warm highlights. The third is used to retain the overall luminosity.

The layers for cooling shadows and warming highlights have a default opacity of 75%. The luminosity control layer has 100% opacity.

 


(Roll mouse over image to see sky warm and Balmoral Castle cool.)

 

Current Version: 1.0d
Date: 11 November 2005
Size: 4 kb
Contents: Photoshop .atn file, ReadMe.txt

Download the TLR Color Enhance action set.

Need help with actions? Download Action Basics here, a PDF tutorial on using actions.

 





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