How to add amazing colour in landscapes with photo shop

 you something's secrets and  amazing color recipes that you can use with your landscapes in Photoshop.

But before we begin, we need to understand the concept a little bit.

So, whenever you import a raw photo into Lightroomor Adobe Camera Raw, do you notice something?

It has these profiles that we can apply - AdobeStandard, Adobe Vivid, so on and so forth.

Similarly, in Photoshop, you can assign profiles to pictures, even if they're not raw, you can assign profiles and those profiles, even Lightroom, or Adobe Camera Raw, get you started

with a pretty good look that you're ready with and then gives you a starting point that you can work on later.

However, in Photoshop, you can totally go crazy with just the profile.

You go to edit 

Right now the image is that sRGB profile.

We can click on profiles and change it to whatever we like.

Now in Windows, once you have this selected,with the scroll of the mouse hover over it, with a scroll of the mouse you can try different profiles and see what

You can also use the arrow keys right there.

This is something that you can do in Windows.

But anyway, you can actually select whatever you like.

So in this case, let's say I like something like e-sRGB, I can select that, hit OK.

But the problem with that is the profile of the complete document has now changed, which is something we didn't want.

We wanted to keep it at sRGB and use profile just as Color Grading.

We don't want to change anything for the document,but, we want to use those colors.

If we just click on this arrow and chooseDocument Profile, have a look, it has changed.

And it can be a mess if we upload it to websites or send it somewhere.

We have to keep it at sRGB or Adobe RGB, whatever your choice is.

So this was our image, make a copy of the background layer - with the background layer selected, press Ctrl or Command J.

Now,right click on it and choose Convert to Smart Object.

Now as we have discussed before, whenever we convert a layer into a Smart Object, everything inside of it is protected.

So, if you double click on the thumbnail of the Smart Object, another document shows up showing you the contents of that nest.

Whatever you change inside that nest is not going to affect the entire document.

In this nested document, you can change it to whatever you want.

Go to Edit - Assign Profile, hit OK, that's fine.

We're going to choose e-sRGB, hit OK and saveit.

Now when you go back to the original document, have a look, this has been updated and the profile stays to be as a RGB.

If you think it's too much, you can control the Opacity and you have control over everything.

So let's say I want to keep it at Opacity of 31.

Or even better, you can use Blend If withit.

Let's say I want this effect only on the highlights.

So, double click on the right hand side of the layer, take it away from the shadows by taking the slider of the underlying later from left to right, just like this.

Now this is very harsh, hold the Alt key or the Option key, click on the slider, break it apart to both sides, hit OK.

You can create one more copy of this one - Ctrl or Command J And and this one, we don't want any Blend If.

Right click on it and choose Clear Layer Styleand simply decrease the Opacity.

So, we're going to keep the Opacity at somewhereabout 30%.

Now you can make a group of both of these.

Select the first one, hold the Ctrl or Command,select the second one, Ctrl or Command G.

So, once we have the group, we can create a mask by clicking on the Mask button.

And then take the brush with black as the foreground color and you can just erase this area because this area is getting too saturated. So.

we're just going to create a gradient right there.

Choose a gradient, drag from top to bottom.

It's not affecting the sky and these areas are looking pretty nice and colorful.

If you also don't want these areas to get affected you can take the brush and paint that area in black, if you wish.