Vibrancy Masking Photoshop Tutorial - How to Make Your Photos Vibrant

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hello and welcome to this episode of

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Danny's dead today you'll learn a new

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way to boost the colors of your

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landscape photos the technique is 40

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times when the five months or saturation

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adjustments are good enough you learn

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how to increase the saturation with the

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channel mixer and then use vibrancy

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masking to control whether you want to

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the sexy fireman or non private area

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this technique works amazingly well for

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landscapes and it's great when you want

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to get the most intense and vibrant

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colors they can from your photo before

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we start the quick way to define missing

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asking is distinctly increase the

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saturation and then lower d vibrant this

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will increase the vibrancy of your photo

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while keeping the mutual area neutral

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this technique is good if you only have

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lightroom or if you don't have a lot of

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time and you think it's good enough well

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if you want something i will give you

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more intense colors and flexibility and

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keep watching this tutorial and you'll

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learn how to do it in photoshop with the

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channel mixer there are several

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adjustments and photoshop which can

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increase the vibrancy of your photo you

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can use these five mins or saturation

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adjustment there's also one way and that

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is with the channel mixer it gives you

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really nice intense colors that work

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great for landscape photos it's sort of

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a mix between the old saturation

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judgment and a new fibrin adjustment and

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that it alters both the saturation and

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lightness like the fireman's adjustments

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but it treats all colors equally like

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the old saturation adjustment the fibrin

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adjustment applies different intensity

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depending on the cue and lightness but

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when we're doing something like primacy

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masking we want something that's

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straightforward and treats all colors

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equally andy channel mixer does the job

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perfectly here's how to do it start by

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going to the adjustments panel and

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adding a channel mixer adjustment layer

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if you don't see this panel you can open

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it by going to window adjustments

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you cannot make their elective mix and

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parts of one channel on to another

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channel in case you don't know what

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channels are color photos are made from

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three channels a red green and blue

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channel that one combined forms the

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color photo so for example if we select

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the red channel from the drop-down menu

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and suck you read 20 and blue to 100 the

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red channel will look exactly the same

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as a blue channel and this is because we

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told Photoshop can make you read channel

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0% read your present green and a hungry

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% blue you can play around with the

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percentages but whatever number you use

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you generally want to have them all add

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up to one hundred percent so that's what

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the channel mixer is doing but how do we

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use it to make your photo more fitted

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here's how to do it start with the red

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channel set the red to 200 green to

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minus-50 and blue to minus-50 let's tell

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Photoshop to regenerate the channel

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using two hundred percent of the data

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from the red channel minus fifty percent

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from the green channel and line is

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another fifty percent from the blue

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channel we're going to repeat this for

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the green and blue channels so going to

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a green channel and apply the same

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pattern of settings set the green to 200

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and the rest to minus-50 do this one

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more time for the blue channel so 200

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for the Blues and minus 50 for drs now

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you can see that this layer has major

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photo more vibrant before we move on I

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recommend saving this as a preset for

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future use and you can do so by clicking

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on the panel menu and selecting save

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preset 1 sake you can access it from the

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presets drop-down menu anytime you like

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and there you go you just increase the

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saturation using the channel mixer right

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now the channel mixer is affecting the

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entire image and although the colors are

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really popping in the foliage it's also

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making the stone wall look quite orange

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and dirty to fix plus we can add a layer

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mask based on the pharmacy here's how to

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do it change the blend mode of this

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layer two different let's will show you

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the difference between your current

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layer and the layers below and as you

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can see the bright spots are the areas

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where the most vibrant colors are and

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the dark spots our wedding neutral

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colors are

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to create a fibrin see max we can simply

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use the image as the layer mask to do

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this select a layer math in your layers

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panel and then go to image apply image

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this tool lets you place an image onto

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your current layer or layer math the

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default settings are fine and you can

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just click OK change the blending mode

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is definitely your back to normal and

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hold the alt or option key and then

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click on the layer mask this will let

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you see what your layer mask looks like

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right now it's pretty dark so pest

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control our convention of L and now

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apply auto levels to balance things out

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hold alt or option and then click on the

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layer mask again to stop looking at your

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lame at and if you hold the shift key

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while clicking on the layer mask you can

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enable or disable it to preview how it

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look here's how the image looks like

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before and after as you can see the

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vibrancy max really helps to preserve

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the neutral colors you can also use the

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levels tool on the layer mask by

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pressing ctrl or command l and dragging

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the outer notes towards the center which

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will increase the contrast like this if

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there are any gaps that you want to fill

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you can use the brush tool and paint

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inside the mask with either black or

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white if you want the opposite effect

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you can import you am i's by pressing

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the import button in the properties

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panel or by pressing ctrl or command I

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this will make your layer mask affecting

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neutral colors more than the fibrin

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colors and it's useful when you want to

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increase the vibrancy very evening with

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a flatter look and present colors from

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being over saturated by the way if

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you're using photoshop CC and you want

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to blur the layer mask make sure you're

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using a feather setting in the

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properties panel and not get Gaussian

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blur filter because once you blurt layer

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max Wittek filter you can't under it

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will excite our setting it will let you

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adjust the floor as many times as you

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like anytime you want and it's also much

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easier to access we're done you can

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lower the layer opacity can control how

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much five mins you want to add here's

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our the image looks like before and

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after

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here are some more examples of what you

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can achieve with this technique I know

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that some people really like to pump the

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vibrance and saturation to get that

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intense vivid look I've seen gallery

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prints like this and they look great in

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real life but something that I noticed

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was that if you keep parts of your photo

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gray or neutral like the stones rock et

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cetera if you keep the great stuff gray

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it will make the colors around it look

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even more vibrant so hopefully with

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dissecting you can still get those

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intense perfect colors put in a way

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that's a little bit more natural hey

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thanks for watching this video if you

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liked it please let me kiss you like

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button now I gotta admit I don't use

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this technique all of the time most of

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his time t5 into saturation you're good

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enough if your photo has very consistent

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privacy you're not going to notice that

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big of a difference if your photo has

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very fun and colorful errors on one side

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and the opposite on the other then

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you're going to notice a huge difference

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so it depends on the photo without

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you're working on anyway let me know

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what you think in the comments subscribe

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to my channel if you haven't already and

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I'll see you again next week

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