Travel photographer Jimmy McIntyre created this short 3-minute video tutorial to share a trick for adjusting the brightness of specific colors in your shot without affecting their saturation.
The technique simply involves creating a new black-and-white adjustment layer…
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…setting its blending mode to “Luminosity”…
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…and then adjusting the sliders of the colors you’d like to tweak.
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You can find more of McIntyre’s tutorials on his YouTube channel here.
(via Jimmy McIntyre via ISO 1200)

Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.