When Photoshop's Sliders Won't Do the Job, Try the Three Picker Compensation Method

Each new version of Photoshop brings better sliders to the software for adjusting the colors of your photographs. Sliders are great for quick editing and have become a staple of my post-processing. However, sometimes, the sliders are just not enough for getting that exact color you want, and more control is needed. PiXimperfect has an excellent video for taking extreme control over the color correction process.

PiXimperfect is back with another well thought-out video that uses the three eyedroppers in the curves panel. The technique doesn’t stop with the black, gray, and white eye-droppers; it includes extensive use of the curves panel. Don’t let this scare you away from using the video’s technique. The video walks you through the use of the curves panel at an easy-to-follow pace.

As mentioned earlier, Photoshop continues to increase the number of less complicated methods for achieving the same results that only a few versions earlier required multiple and complicated steps to produce. Also, while most users appreciate this, sometimes, the simplified tools do not provide enough control. Knowing and understanding some of the controls like the curves and saturation panels that were so commonly used can still be useful today.  Knowing these tools is especially helpful when extreme adjustments are needed.

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Doug Turney is a Connecticut based photographer who specializes in non-ball sport types of photography such as motocross, sailing, and cycling. But that doesn’t stop him from shooting other types of photography too. Doug believes photography is photography and doesn’t like to be typecast. Doug loves to travel and often shoots when traveling.

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I had Elements, too -- used it on my Kodak DC210 P&S shots, which were an incredible *million* pixels!! $1,070.00 plus $110.00 extra for a 10 Mb (yup, with an M) memory card. Thanks for the memory.