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This tutorial will help show you how to add impact to your colour images - it will give you two simple methods using layers to boost yours colours and contrast, while allowing you to control how much or how little you want to add. There are numerous methods of improving the colours in an image, but the purpose of this tutorial is to assist beginners in photo editing and to help those interested in learning to become familiar with the use of adjustment layers.

The tutorial contains detailed instructions for Photoshop and should also work for Photoshop Elements. Any other editing programs that also have a layers functions can make use of this tutorial, though you may have to look for the tools mentioned in the tutorial as different programs might use different terminology.


Download the tutorial in pdf format here:

Boosting Colours with Layers

Download the sample image to use in the tutorial here: Niagara Falls _DSC_0021.jpg

This tutorial is meant to give your final image a realistic colour boost - it is not intended to create overly saturated or highly intense imagery. It will take the original sample image (below) to the final image shown here, and in the tutorial:

Original Sample Image:
Final completed image:


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