CHAPTER 8 COLOR MANIPULATION, CHANNELS, AND LAYER (Photography web hosting)
CHAPTER 8 COLOR MANIPULATION, CHANNELS, AND LAYER MODES 315 Layer Modes Finally, you can use layer modes. First, set the foreground color to a medium sepia color: a28a65 (typed into the HTML Notation box) works well as a starting point. Now, create a new layer that is entirely filled with this color by clicking on New Layer in the Layers dialog. Set the Layer Fill Type to Foreground color. This covers your original layer. But don t panic! Go to the Mode menu in the Layers dialog and choose Color (Figure 8-16). Figure 8-16. With the sepia layer selected, choose Color in the Mode menu. This gives a sharper result than Colorize or Old Photo. Of course, you can use the Color layer mode to tint photos any shade, not just sepia; and you can create very impressive effects by drawing different colors on different parts of the color layer. You ll learn more about colorizing with layer modes in Chapter 10. Using Threshold to Clean Up Scans Have you ever tried to scan in a page from a book? It s especially tricky with an old yellowed book, or a page that has crumples and folds and dirt spots on it, or text showing through from the other side of the page. How can you clean up a page of text like Figure 8-17 into a nice black- and-white image?
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