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In Photoshop for Designers: Color, Nigel French focuses on the tools and features in Photoshop designed for choosing, applying, and editing color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes exercises on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color channels, hand coloring black and white images, and designing with a reduced color palette. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:

    Defining color terms
    Using Kuler to create color palettes
    Understanding additive and subtractive color
    Understanding color management
    Using the Levels, Curves, Auto Tone, and Auto Contrast adjustments
    Color correction
    Selecting color-from the Magic Wand to Color Range
    Neutralizing blacks and whites with blend modes
    Matching colors
    Saturating and de-saturating colors
    Increasing saturation with Vibrance
    Designing with spot color
    Colorizing images