Adjusting Color - Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual

darkest parts if you are dragging the black slider. If
a color channel is selected in the Levels dialog box,
the black area indicates where none of the given
color component exists.
Slowly drag the slider to the center of the
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histogram to identify the light or dark areas in the
image. Use these pixels for targeting the black
point and white point in your image.

Adjusting color

You can adjust the image's color balance to remove
unwanted color casts or to correct oversaturated
or undersaturated colors.
About the color wheel
Because there are numerous ways to achieve
similar results in color balance, it's useful to
consider the type of image you have and the effect
you want to produce. If you're new to adjusting
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color components, it helps to keep a diagram of
the color wheel on hand. You can use the color
wheel to predict how a change in one color
component affects other colors.
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A. Green B. Yellow C. Red
D. Magenta E. Blue F. Cyan
You can decrease the amount of any color in an
image by increasing the amount of its opposite on
the color wheel—and vice versa. Similarly, you can
increase and decrease a color by adjusting the two
adjacent colors on the wheel, or even by adjusting
the two colors adjacent to its opposite. For
example, in an RGB image you can decrease
magenta by removing red and blue or by adding
green. This results in an overall color balance
containing less magenta.
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