Working with the Enhance Menu allows you to do things with your photos like color correction, adjusting contrast, and converting to black and white. This article helps to explain the different menu choices and what they can be used for in order to enhance your photographs.
The adjust color menu option also gives you a range of choices when working with your pictures. Here, I’ve designed a bulleted list in order to explain each of the different options:
- Remove Color Cast - This will allow you to remove any color tinges that have appeared on your photo either from the camera’s auto options or the white balance being off. You click on part of an image that is supposed to be true black, white, or gray, and Photoshop Elements will correct the rest of the image based on where you’ve clicked.
- Adjust Hue/Saturation - Hue will allow for you to change the overcast color of your image depending on where you move the slider. Saturation will allow you to make the image more colorful or switch it to black and white. The lightness slider will allow for you to make the image brighter or add more shadow.
- Remove Color - This option also changes your image to a black and white image.
- Replace Color - Using replace color allows you to change one color in an image to a different color. Make your strawberries green or your oranges purple. To do this, click the eyedropper button in the previewer box or on the image itself, use the eyedropper + tool to add colors to change or the eyedropper – button to remove colors you don’t want to change. To pick a new color you can either adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness sliders or you can click the results box and choose a new color from the color picker.
- Adjust Color Curves - This allows you to choose a preset selection to fix your photo’s color tones. You can adjust each color channel individually in the case that one object in the photo was too close to the flash or drenched in shadow.
- Adjust Color for Skin Tone - This option works great for group shots of people where someone’s skin tone may not look correct in the photo. Click on someone’s skin tone that looks correct and Photoshop Elements will fix the rest of the photo. If you aren’t happy with the results, you can click on a different point in the photo or use the adjustable sliders to attain the result you’re trying to achieve.