Photoshop CS3 Mastering Lab Color

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Deke McClelland

Based on the device-independent CIE specification from 1976, Lab color is frequently misrepresented as a techy, labor-intensive color space. In fact, Lab color performs certain types of color modifications more quickly and with better results than RGB. In Photoshop CS3 Mastering Lab Color, Deke McClelland explores how to use Lab color "to make bad photographs great and great photographs even better." He demonstrates image manipulations that are best suited to Lab, and walks through a typical, non-destructive Lab correction. Deke also shows how to correct lighting, apply selective color modifications, and reverse the effects of color cast. Exercise files accompany the course.

Released on: 5/30/2008

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Table of contents

Introduction
	Your doorway to better color	2:18	11.5 MB
	Lab and the untreated JPEG image	6:15	8.6 MB
	Lab and Camera Raw with a JPEG file	6:05	9.0 MB
	Lab and Camera Raw with a raw photograph	8:54	14.8 MB
1. What Lab Color Is
	Don't fear the Lab mode	1:05	6.1 MB
	Why color is 3D	4:22	4.6 MB
	Device-dependant RGB and CMYK	5:15	5.1 MB
	Device-dependant CIELAB D50	5:33	6.2 MB
	Color by the numbers (mixing Lab values)	5:35	6.5 MB
	The Hue/Saturation color wheel	4:00	4.9 MB
	The slightly skewed Lab color wheel	9:56	11.4 MB
	Lab's wide world of "imaginary colors"	6:41	8.3 MB
	Examining RGB and CMYK channels	6:37	9.9 MB
	The strange (but powerful) Lab channels	6:47	9.3 MB
	How RGB and CMYK channels blend	6:45	10.9 MB
	How channels blend in Lab	3:54	6.0 MB
2. What Lab Color Can Do
	Bad becomes great, great becomes better	1:00	5.7 MB
	Cheapening a perfectly good image in RGB	5:03	7.1 MB
	Making a great image even better in Lab	8:09	11.7 MB
	Saving a Lab image file	2:13	3.4 MB
	Favoring yellow to balance skin tones	6:12	11.0 MB
	Dropping out the blues	5:34	9.7 MB
	Correcting a very bad image in RGB	7:20	9.1 MB
	Sharpening luminance independently of color	5:22	7.8 MB
	Correcting a very bad image in Lab	7:34	9.2 MB
	Sharpening the Lightness channel	5:47	9.2 MB
	Finessing the Lightness channel with Curves	8:27	10.6 MB
	Applying Curves to the a and b channels	7:52	10.4 MB
	Sharpening for effect, blurring away noise	7:14	18.5 MB
3. A Typical, Nondestructive Lab Correction
	The convergence of all things nondestructive	1:26	8.3 MB
	Correcting saturation and color cast	8:05	19.4 MB
	Fading the oranges and reds	4:32	9.7 MB
	The secret power of Brightness/Contrast in Lab	5:05	11.2 MB
	Smart Objects and sharpening	3:33	7.7 MB
	Fixing chromatic aberrations in RGB	8:51	17.7 MB
	Adding clarity with High Pass	3:13	10.0 MB
	Reducing color noise with Median	4:35	8.2 MB
	Protecting the sky with a density mask	5:48	14.6 MB
	Nondestructive cropping with Canvas Size	6:23	16.5 MB
	Convert to RGB, flatten, and save	5:52	12.2 MB
4. Correcting Color Cast and Lighting
	Images with bigger issues	1:06	5.6 MB
	Fixing a color cast	6:14	6.8 MB
	Exaggerating a color cast	5:23	8.9 MB
	Quantifying and correcting a color cast	8:11	12.0 MB
	Sharpening an image with the Emboss command	4:38	7.0 MB
	Introducing a more complicated color cast	3:43	4.3 MB
	Drawing a custom contrast curve	7:21	9.8 MB
	Performing a gross color cast compensation	3:49	5.2 MB
	Fine-tuning a color cast compensation	5:52	7.6 MB
	Restoring neutral highlights	6:08	10.3 MB
	Masking away aberrant hues	5:16	9.7 MB
	Sharpen, save, convert to RGB, and crop	6:18	11.2 MB
	Applying a Shadows/Highlights Smart Filter	5:01	6.3 MB
	Tweaking Shadows/Highlights in Lab	5:25	6.5 MB
	Rendering Shadows/Highlights in Lab	7:57	10.4 MB
	Correcting color cast and contrast	6:16	7.8 MB
	Completing a low-frequency portrait with High Pass	5:22	8.5 MB
5. Selective Color Modifications
	Changing some colors, leaving others as is	1:07	6.3 MB
	Rotating hues in RGB with Hue/Saturation	5:00	10.0 MB
	Modifying colors in Lab with Curves	5:47	8.6 MB
	Blending colors with Underlying Layer	6:08	12.1 MB
	Changing colors in wardrobe shots	6:01	8.9 MB
	Blending the Red and b channels	8:05	10.1 MB
	Developing a base mask	8:08	15.4 MB
	Colorizing an isolated area	7:33	10.4 MB
	Revealing complementary highlights	3:18	4.8 MB
	Repairing strangely colored shadows	5:37	16.6 MB
	Tanning and deepening skin tones	4:13	6.0 MB
	Exposing bright eyes and teeth	4:39	7.9 MB
Conclusion
	See ya	1:08	5.2 MB