I was looking through the photographs I took when touring some of the lovely gardens in Toowoomba on Tuesday and picked on this one to share with you. It was taken in the Botanical Gardens - I thought the name of the garden was Queens Park but our coach driver called it the Botanical Gardens. Whatever! As my son would say!
Anyway, the shot, taken from knee height to give the tulips pride of place in the fore-ground, is enhanced slightly in Photoshop to give that cerise colour even more impact.
At the bottom of the Layers Palette in Photoshop is a round button that is cut in half diagonally and one half of the circle is black the other white.
Click on this button and a list of options is given. I clicked on "Selective Color".
At the top of the box that now opens it is possible to choose any individual colour and modify it.
I selected Green first and moved the black slider to the right a llile. This made the leaves of the tulips darker.
Next Yellow was selected and again the black slider was moved to the right a little and this took the brightness off the pale coloured lawn.
The layer was flattened and the beautiful tulips really stand out so much better even though the changes were only modest.
Sometimes a little change makes all the difference.
AJ
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