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Photo Filter Adjustment Layers >
1 - Introduction
You can use a Photo Filter adjustment layer to adjust the color of a photograph.
Example
Original
A Cooling Filter Reduced the Warmth of the Color
Three Uses
Use #1 - Change the Mood
The mood of a photograph can be changed by adding or subtracting from the warmth of the color.
Above, the dead-bird scene was made more morose by using a cooling filter.
Use #2 - Correct for
Tungsten & Fluorescent Lighting
If the wrong white balance was set, you can correct the color with a filter.
Use #3 - Add a Tone
Use the Sepia filter, or other filters, to tone black-and-white photographs.
Twenty Choices
When you you create a Photo Filter adjustment layer, you can choose from twenty filters.
The Five Most Used Filters
Filter #1 - Add Warmth
A scene illuminated with an overcast sky, shade, or flash, is often blue or cyan (blue/green).
Use the Warming Filter (81) to reduce the blue color.
Filter #2 - Reduce Warmth
The Cooling Filter (82) reduces the warmth of the color in a scene.
This is the filter that was used in the dead-bird scene above.
Filters #3 & #4 - Correct for Tungsten & Fluorescent
The Cooling Filter (80) corrects for orange of tungsten lighting.
The Magenta Filter corrects for the green of fluorescent lighting.
Filter #5 - Tone
The Sepia Filter is used to tone black-and-white photographs.
Go to Toning.
Beginners may want to skip ahead to an example.
Chart
The chart below describes the filters in more detail.
The most useful filters, described above, are in bold face.
The values in the Red, Green, and Blue columns are luminosity levels (0 to 255).
A change in one luminosity level is equivalent to a change of about .4% in a color.
When a value is negative, its positive value equivalent is given as well.
For example, -6 red and +6 cyan are equivalent.
The filters are at 25% Density with Preserve Luminosity selected.
|
Filter |
Uses |
Red |
Green |
Blue |
|
Warming Filter (85) |
Correct for using tungsten white balance (Light bulb icon) with daylight |
+5 |
-2 Same as +2 magenta |
-7 Same as +7 yellow |
|
Warming Filter (LBA) |
Stronger version of the above filter |
+7 |
-2 Same as +2 magenta |
-7 Same as +7 yellow |
|
Warming Filter (81) |
Warms up the color |
+4 |
-1 Same as +1 magenta |
-7 Same as +7 yellow |
|
Cooling Filter (80) |
Correct for using daylight white balance (Sun icon) with tungsten lighting |
-6 Same as +6 cyan |
0 |
+19 |
|
Cooling Filter (LBB) |
Slightly different from the above filter |
-4 Same as +4 cyan |
-1 Same as +1 magenta |
+19 |
|
Cooling Filter (82) |
Cools down the color |
-15 Same as +15 cyan |
+3 |
+24 |
|
Red |
+8 |
-3 Same as +3 magenta |
-3 Same as +3 yellow |
|
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Orange |
+7 |
-2 Same as +2 magenta |
-5 Same as +5 yellow |
|
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Yellow |
-12 Same as +12 cyan |
0 |
-10 Same as +10 yellow |
|
|
Green |
-5 Same as +5 cyan |
+3 |
-5 Same as +5 yellow |
|
|
Cyan |
-6 Same as +6 cyan |
+2 |
+5 |
|
|
Blue |
-2 Same as +2 cyan |
-1 Same as +1 magenta |
+9 |
|
|
Violet |
+2 |
-3 Same as +3 magenta |
+8 |
|
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Magenta |
Correct for using daylight white balance (Sun icon) with florescent lighting |
+6 |
-4 Same as +4 magenta |
+6 |
|
Sepia |
Toning B&W photographs |
+2 |
-1 Same as +1 magenta |
-3 Same as +3 yellow |
|
Deep Red |
+12 |
-6 Same as +6 magenta |
-4 Same as +4 yellow |
|
|
Deep Blue |
-2 Same as +2 cyan |
0 |
+8 |
|
|
Deep Emerald |
-4 Same as +4 cyan |
+2 |
-2 Same as +2 yellow |
|
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Deep Yellow |
+4 |
0 |
-10 Same as +10 yellow |
|
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Underwater |
-5 Same as +5 cyan |
+2 |
+1 |
Let's look at an example.
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