Aperty: How to use Color tool

Unleash the full potential of your portraits with Aperty's Color Tool! This user-friendly feature allows you to adjust hue, enhance skin tones, and easily remove unwanted colour casts. The Colour Tool gives you complete control over whether you want vibrant or natural-looking portraits. Bid farewell to dull colours and welcome lifelike portraits that authentically capture your subjects' essence!

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In this article:

• What is the Color Tool
• Introducing Color Tool controllers
• Getting started with the Color Tool
• Aperty

What is the Color Tool

The Color Tool in Aperty is an essential asset for photographers seeking to achieve precise color accuracy and vibrancy in their portraits. Designed with advanced editing capabilities, this tool allows you to meticulously adjust hues, saturation, and luminance, ensuring that skin tones appear natural while enhancing the overall visual impact of your images.

Introducing Color Controllers

Vibrance Slider

Unlike saturation, vibrance selectively boosts the intensity of less saturated colours. This feature is ideal for portraits, as it prevents the risk of oversaturating already vivid skin tones and backgrounds.

Vibrance Slider

This slider allows you to adjust the overall intensity of all colours in your portrait, helping to create a more impactful image.

Remove Color Cast Slider

This slider is crucial for eliminating unwanted colour tints caused by different lighting conditions. Whether it’s a greenish hue from fluorescent lights or a warm cast from indoor lighting, the Remove Color Cast slider helps to neutralize these effects, ensuring that skin tones and other colours in your portrait appear natural and true to life.

HSL - Hue Sliders

This control lets you shift the colours in your image to fine-tune their appearance. For instance, you can adjust skin tones or background colours to create a more harmonious look.

HSL - Saturation Sliders

Increase or decrease the intensity of specific colours to bring life to your portraits or tone them down for a more subtle effect.

HSL - Luminance Sliders

Adjust the brightness of individual colours. This is particularly useful for enhancing the luminosity of skin tones while keeping other colours balanced in the image.

Getting Started with the Color Tool

1. Select your project in the Project Manager and double-click to open it in the Editing module.
2. Choose the image you want to edit from the Film Strip at the bottom of the application.
3. Navigate to the Main Editing Toolbar and click the icon with three sliders to access the Essentials section.
4. Open the Color tool by clicking its name or the triangle next to it.
5. Adjust the Vibrance slider to boost the intensity of less saturated colors while protecting the richness of already vivid tones.
6. Use the Hue sliders to shift specific colours in your image for more accurate skin tones and backgrounds.
7. Adjust the Saturation sliders to increase or decrease the intensity of individual colours as needed.
8. Use the Luminance sliders to brighten or darken specific colours, focusing on enhancing skin tones and key elements.
9. Adjust the Vibrance slider to boost the intensity of less saturated colors while protecting the richness of already vivid tones.
10. Optionally: Utilize the Remove Color Cast slider to eliminate any unwanted colour tints caused by lighting conditions.
11. At any point, click the Eye icon to compare the before and after results.

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Written and published by: Jakub Bors | #BorsPhotography | www.borsphoto.com