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hey guys so I'm back today with another
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free Photoshop action for you guys and
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this one is pretty cool but the premise
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is a little bit different in that nvp
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chroma full color control expand this
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one down here this gray one um is
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actually already included in our actions
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Pack 12 okay actions 12 which is our
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chroma Luma split action set that does a
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lot of different things uh leveraging
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chroma data by itself and Luma data by
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so we have videos about it all go check
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it out this is effectively yes kind of a
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sample okay to kind of see how it works
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but there's so many variations that that
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you really need to see what the full
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action set is about to see if you might
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be interested but regardless this one's
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free this one's cool now I'm going to
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run it and then explain it and it
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creates an enormous layer stack but I
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don't want you to be intimidated by it I
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want you to just bear with me let me
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walk you through it because it may not
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be the type of action that you run
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casually in the middle of a workflow
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just because it might be towards the end
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it might be towards the beginning it can
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be used for Creative it can be used for
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corrective all kinds of different
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possibilities I'm going to go ahead and
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just duplicate the background layer and
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then I'm going to run it it's going to
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let you know that you need to start on a
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raster layer meaning you start on the
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background or a copy of the background
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or some kind of stamped layer right you
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have to start on that or it won't
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succeed so hit
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continue let's walk you through this
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okay it's a big layer stack but really
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it's not that intimidating once you
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break it down so what we've done is for
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example you see this layer folder called
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Reds okay if I hold down alter option
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and click that Reds folder this is the
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mask of the red range now unlike other
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methods in Photoshop this is extracting
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the red range using only chroma data
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which again I I encourage you to watch
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the videos about our chroma Luma splits
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and why we do that sometimes and how
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it's useful this is extracting red using
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only chroma data meaning that the red
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just a little bit more accurate and true
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to where the Reds really are okay so if
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I continue down and I click the yellows
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folder you see the yellows have been
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extracted the greens have been extracted
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but there's not really any there
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Cy blues and magentas oop click the
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wrong one let's hold down there you go
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that's the magentas which is more these
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are more like Trace artifacts than
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anything else in magentas now what has
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happened with these masks is when we
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create the extraction we create the mask
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for the Reds we also expand that mask
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okay it runs basically an auto contrast
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on the mask allowing you to access more
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of the red so it's an exaggerated uh
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range of the of the red mask which is
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why when you see like the greens you see
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these artifacts and when you see
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magentas you see artifacts because
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there's not really that much Magenta in
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there but they've been expanded why is
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that beneficial to you that means that
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every change that you do to that you
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know Luminosity range of color excuse me
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that color range that Hue range every
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change that you make with an adjustment
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layer is going to be more obvious with
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you know less how do I put put this way
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you can use the adjustment layer less
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intense and still see a result because
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sometimes when you extract the red or
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the yellow or green you get such a
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subtle result that it's as if you don't
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have a mask at all so by expanding The
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Mask it does it automatically you have
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full access to Reds now all that said it
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seems a little intimidating but this is
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how you can leverage it for example
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under Reds actually under all of them we
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have three adjustment layers put there
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by default but the idea is that you can
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put any adjustment layer there so let's
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walk you through it here we are in Reds
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that's the red mask we have for example
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a hue and saturation layer here
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underneath Reds so if I change the Hue
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I'm changing the Hue of only the Reds if
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I change the saturation I'm changing the
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saturation of only the Reds see that
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that's cool and pretty common you can do
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that with other methods however because
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we have it manually masked out with a
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raster mask I also can add a color
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balance to it so I can do color balance
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just on the Reds see that and on top of
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that I have a curves that I can darken
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or brighten the Reds on a curve in any
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way that I want and as long as inside
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the Reds folder I can create any other
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adjustment layer and I do me any let's
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see color lookup right now we have a
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color lookup under Reds so I can come
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here and choose uh edgy Amber and now
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I've added an edgy Amber luck lookup
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table to the Reds only and of course I
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can change the opacity of that maybe
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like to 40 still doesn't look quite
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right but I can do that that or I can
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take that color lookup table and bring
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it down to the yellows now I'm only
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applying it to the yellows okay or what
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the heck I can bring it all the way down
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to cyan right and I can try something
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else how about let's see here drop Blues
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that's going to kill my Blues we don't
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necessarily want that how about bleach
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byass I don't know there's so many
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different things you can do as long as
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you practice with this and realize huh
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what can I possibly add to modify
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something so I want to deepen the skin
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tone I go to the Reds and I deepen a
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little bit with the curves um on my
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yellows I want to make the yellows a
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little more red so I'm going to make the
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yellows just a hair more red there we go
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on the sky I want to increase the
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saturation of the cyan and I want to
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deepen the cyan and the blues a little
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bit maybe I want to brighten them I
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don't know um in the in in actually I
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was in the Blues excuse me on the cyan
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here I can actually grade a little more
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actual color into them even if that's a
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little bit strong I don't know um and I
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let's see how about on the yellows we're
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just getting wild here guys brightness
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and contrast put it on Luminosity blend
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mode add contrast to just the yellows
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reduce contrast to the the yellows
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little subtle changes you never know
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what can happen now when you have this
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huge layer stack and you dial everything
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in you turn it on and off to see if
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you're getting what you like when you're
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done you can close the folder and
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continue adding layers on top or you can
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simply flatten or stamp to a new layer
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shift option command e shift off contr e
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stamp to new layer and keep working with
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that so this is a big layer stack and
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one of the reasons why we're giving it
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away today is to show you guys the power
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of a complex what looks like it's
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complex layer stack to control details
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because like I said before if you want
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to control the Reds for
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example you can come to select color
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range right and then you can come here
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Reds okay and then you hit okay and now
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you have a red selection and you can
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choose an adjustment layer and that's
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cool absolutely cool but the way we've
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had it set up here is that you have
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every core every 60° every core color or
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hue angle R to go and expanded already
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grouped into different folders so you
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can use any adjustment layer you need on
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any single range any of the 60° ranges
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so if you run this and only use the reds
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or only use the blues because you want
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to adjust the sky and the jeans awesome
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you can do exactly what you need but by
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running this everything is ready it's
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basically a type of image decomposition
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then you the changes you want to make to
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the ranges and you flatten again perhaps
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or you close the folder and continue
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working on top where you use such a
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stack like this is up to you right the
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beginning of a of an edit for corrective
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reasons like I said or maybe towards the
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end for finalization Creative reasons
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but the idea of a big layer stack is
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just a way of literally like I said
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decomposing splitting apart an image so
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you can really fine-tune exactly what
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you want with the right tool that you
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want now ranges like Hue angles like
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this is one way of doing it we can also
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o decompose with shadows mids and
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highlights and then do things to that we
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can decompose with both of them but we
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have to be reasonable about what we're
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trying to accomplish so we're giving you
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this action today so you can try it get
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a feel for it and see how your your
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brain can adjust to working with a
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decomposed image this is not literally
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decomposed but we are targeting
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different areas to see that you can do
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different things with them the idea of
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being able to do a hue saturation and a
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little bit of color grading and a curves
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and even a color lookup or or anything
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guys even a channel mixer just on the
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Reds you never know how this can affect
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you how powerful this can be thinking to
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yourself I can use multiple adjustment
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layers on one Hue angle and I can do it
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to all the core Hue angles below you
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know oh and by the way because I already
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got asked this if you think to yourself
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what if we want instead of the six core
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Hue angles what if we want 12 we want
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30° Hue angles in a stack like this
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technically that can be made it's just
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the more complicated action it's going
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to be a huge layer stack right but this
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kind of image decomposition to fine-tune
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things just remember you run it you use
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exactly what you're looking for and then
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you flatten it basically decompose and
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recompose try not to be intimidated by
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huge layer Stacks one of the reasons why
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we organize them in folders is so we can
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tuck it away and leave it alone okay on
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top of that too something we really
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don't talk about on the channel very
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often but I do on really complicated
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layer Stacks is coming up here on your
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layers window there's a little pull down
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menu that says kind by default that's a
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way of like sorting and view viewing
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your layers and when they get really
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really Advanced like you have multiple
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layers either 15 or 150 going here can
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be very useful now some of you know
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about this I'm going to guess some of
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you don't but if you click kind and for
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example go to name right you can just
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type in like for example the word red
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and now you only have the Reds
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temporarily you can just turn them on
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and off toggle that red on and off right
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so you can just work with the Reds and
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you don't have to worry about this huge
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layer stack right you can just choose
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red and then do the modifications and
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everything that you need on red and then
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you can just type in yellow you can do
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the same thing that you need to do with
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yellow it's just a way of kind of
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viewing sections of things which is also
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another reason why organizing and
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labeling your complicated layer Stacks
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like this is important just don't forget
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there's all kinds of ways to go about
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this um to work with a big layer stack
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in a in a positive way that doesn't feel
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intimidating or confusing
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