Using Lab mode in PSE 5 (from Handy Actions 3)
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago by Graffi | | 849 views | Technorati
Ihad a question about Lab mode (which can be accessed with Handy Actions 3 for PS Elements 5) in another blog post earlier, and I thought it merited its own blog post - here’s my answer to that one -
Lab mode is another image mode that you can use to edit your photos, like RGB mode (which is Red-Green-Blue - the standard way images are composited in cameras & on computers, by blending the Red, Green & Blue channels together) or Grayscale mode (which simply removes the color information and displays images in various degrees of black - yep, black!)
It’s awesomeness comes from it’s non-destructive way of doing things. It composes images based on a “Lightness” channel & two color channels - “a” & “b” (hence the name, “Lab” mode)
Images converted to Lab mode can be edited and manipulated in many ways, but the most common are sharpening, conversion to B&W and color correction.
There’s a tutorial about Sharpening in Lab mode here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/instant_photoshop.shtmlA tutorial about B&W conversions here:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/lab-color.phpand another about color correction here:
http://www.photolinks.com/resources.html?p_page=color-white.htmland a video about sharpening & Color correction here:
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/a-color-correcting-and-sharpening-tutorial-in-photoshop/(By the way, there are actions for these techniques in the Handy Actions pack - as well as access to all the tools to achieve them!)
So there you go. Lab mode, quite simply, absolutely ROCKS for digital photographers - and now you can get it in Elements 5 with Handy Actions 3 for Elements 5!
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Hi Graffi,
Thank you very much for your great answer on “Lab Mode”.
By the way, I have bought all your new “Actions 3″ packs for PSE5 & PSE6.
So now I have to learn to use them.
Thanks
JIJ
I have a few articles scattered around this blog & in the main site ( http://www.graficalicus.com ) about a bunch of them -
also, google for Photoshop tutorials about whtever you want to do - type something like “photoshop tutorial depth of field” or “photoshop tutorial special effect”
With a lot of the tools in Handy 3, these tutorials are within reach now, using Elements -