If you work with photos, you'll find this Photoshop tool useful. By Jennifer Foy, Contributing Writer C stylizing can be a bear of a chore to handle, consuming lots of time to achieve a customer's desired look on a sublimation-friendly product. Dye sublimation allows you to achieve a wide gamut of colors for photographic and personalized products. But there's a one-click wonder you can use to save production time and maybe some frustration - with lots of options already loaded in Adobe Photoshop. You've seen color tonal effects everywhere, and using Photoshop's Color Lookup OLOR EDITING AND P.34 image adjustment tool is one way to achieve these looks. This layer effect is an easy, one-clickmethod to change the color of a photograph without costly plug-ins. While it became available in Photoshop CS6, the Color Lookup effect is not widely known for photo editing. It has been more commonly used by those in the videoediting industry and now is becoming more known into the photo-editing realm. The presets available in Photoshop are known as the color lookup tables, or LUTs. They include specific directions that are computed to Photoshop on how to remap I M P R E S S I O N S M A G . C O M APRIL 2016 an images color scheme to instantly achieve a new look. These are inspired by the lookup tables used for movie making (see "More on Lookup Tables"). ). The effect is made on an adjustment layer that allows for some further editing while being non-destructive to the original image layer. It is a file effect that changes all the colors of your image to different ones, usually applying some sort of stylized look - for example, changing all the tones to duller with a blue tint. This is just one style; there are many variations included in the settings.http://www.IMPRESSIONSMAG.COM