At the Core Is the Color Wheel
The vast majority of Photoshop’s color controls are based on a classic color wheel (Figure 8.1). If you understand a few basic concepts about the color wheel, you’ll be ahead of the game when controlling color in Photoshop.
Figure 8.1. Most of Photoshop’s color-adjustment features are based on the color wheel.
Every color you’ve ever seen in Photoshop can be described as a combination of hue, saturation, and brightness (HSB for short). Let’s look at what these terms mean.
Hue = Basic Color
In Figure 8.1, only six basic colors are shown: cyan, blue, magenta, red, yellow, and green. Every color you could imagine ...
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