Coloring Your Background Most photographers color their backgrounds by using speedlights and gels, I literally find this useless. With Photoshop, however, you only need a gray background and a decent softbox to start with. Follow these steps: Use a Gray Background to Shoot With. Adjust Your Channel Mixer. Split the Model From the Background. Finalize With Both Dodge and Burn Tools. Step #1: Use a Gray Background When you start shooting your model, you need a gray background to easily edit its color later. Simply because gray is the only color that you can perfectly adjust, whether by using your speedlight or your photoshop. Step #2: Adjust Your Channel Mixer When you’re done with shooting your model, lunch your Photoshop and open the photo you want to adjust. After editing your model’s skin/eyes/whatever-needs-to-be-fixed, you’ll be ready to adjust your background’s color. Follow these steps: Duplicate the layer of the photo (How) Open the Channel Mixer (How) Test the Source Channels until you get a decent color. Change the Output Channel from Red to Blue or Green (Optional) Click OK when you’re done with adjusting it. Merge the Duplicated Layer with the Adjustment Layer (How) Step #3: Split the Model from the Background Now the color is great, but you definitely have to split the model from the background, unless you wanted it to look like an alien. Watch this video to see how to split your model from the background, click here. Step #4: Finalize with Dodge/Burn Tools To finalize your project, I would highly recommend the Dodge and Burn tools. Don’t overuse ‘em though, you may kill the nature of the image. That’s pretty much it, I tried to make it as simple as possible. I hope this tutorial helped you understand the Channel Mixer role in Photoshop. If you find this helpful, share it with your friends or give it a Like down here.
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Coloring Your Background

Most photographers color their backgrounds by using speedlights and gels, I literally find this useless. With Photoshop, however, you only need a gray background and a decent softbox to start with. Follow these steps:

  1. Use a Gray Background to Shoot With.
  2. Adjust Your Channel Mixer.
  3. Split the Model From the Background.
  4. Finalize With Both Dodge and Burn Tools.

Step #1: Use a Gray Background

When you start shooting your model, you need a gray background to easily edit its color later. Simply because gray is the only color that you can perfectly adjust, whether by using your speedlight or your photoshop.

Step #2: Adjust Your Channel Mixer

When you’re done with shooting your model, lunch your Photoshop and open the photo you want to adjust. After editing your model’s skin/eyes/whatever-needs-to-be-fixed, you’ll be ready to adjust your background’s color. Follow these steps:

  • Duplicate the layer of the photo (How)
  • Open the Channel Mixer (How)
  • Test the Source Channels until you get a decent color.
  • Change the Output Channel from Red to Blue or Green (Optional)
  • Click OK when you’re done with adjusting it.
  • Merge the Duplicated Layer with the Adjustment Layer (How)

Step #3: Split the Model from the Background

Now the color is great, but you definitely have to split the model from the background, unless you wanted it to look like an alien. Watch this video to see how to split your model from the background, click here.

Step #4: Finalize with Dodge/Burn Tools

To finalize your project, I would highly recommend the Dodge and Burn tools. Don’t overuse ‘em though, you may kill the nature of the image.

That’s pretty much it, I tried to make it as simple as possible. I hope this tutorial helped you understand the Channel Mixer role in Photoshop. If you find this helpful, share it with your friends or give it a Like down here.

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Like most fat teenagers, I used to think that perfection is reaching a point where you can fit to those popular groups and depend on them to create an awesome project. I was wrong. I don’t want to sound dramatic but everything in life can be perfect if you believed that you, only you, can work at it and done it perfectly.

Ten years later, I lost 62kg of my weight, graduated as an architecture, saved the princess in Super Mario Nintendo 64, but most importantly? I have become that graphic designer who worked in hundreds of projects, some of them were big, others were small, but each one of them has taught me something that made me wonder “Why has nobody told me this before? And who’s fault was that?”

In this blog, I will write about everything I have learned in graphic design, advertising, web developing, photography, applications, video production, sketching, and of course, diets and recipes. Still, I’m a very simple sample of what I do, but I deeply hope this would help some people around.