Color Balance

The Color Balance adjustment allows you to correct color tints in individual tonal ranges.

Select Image -> Adjustment -> Color Balance... to display the adjustment parameters in the Settings Panel.

You can also use the Color Balance adjustment layer (Layers -> New -> Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance...) that will affect all the underlying layers without changing their content.

Original Image Color Balance
Color Balance

 

Parameters:

    In the Shadows, Midtones, Highlights tabs, select the tone range for correction.

    Using the Cyan/Red, Magenta/Green and Yellow/Blue options, increase or decrease the amount of the desired color in the selected tonal range.

    Preserve Luminosity. If the check-box is enabled, the overall brightness of the image will be preserved while changing the color.

    Fixed Preview Area. If the check-box is enabled, all changes will be displayed in a small preview area indicated by the dotted line. If the check-box is disabled, the changes will be applied to the area visible in the Image Window.

 

Click Default to restore the default values.

Click OK to apply all changes and close the dialog box.

Click Cancel to close the dialog box without applying any changes.