{"id":1062,"date":"2012-10-11T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2019-04-13T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T15:31:32","slug":"neutral-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/newsite\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Way To Find Neutral Gray In A Photo With Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"author\">Written by Steve Patterson.<\/div>\n<p>When it comes to color correcting images in Photoshop, removing  color casts from the highlight and shadow areas is usually pretty straightforward since it's quite easy to <a href=\"\/photo-editing\/levels\/\"><strong>find the brightest and darkest areas in an image<\/strong><\/a>. But what about the midtones? How do you find that area in the image that's supposed to be neutral gray? Usually, you guess and hope for the best, since Photoshop doesn't seem to have any way of easily pointing out those midtone gray areas for us. Or does it?<\/p>\n<p>Of course it does! The only problem is that it's not very obvious how to go about it, but as we'll see in this  tutorial, just because it isn't obvious doesn't mean it isn't easy to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/family.jpg\" alt=\"The original image. Image licensed from iStockphoto by Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The original image.<\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.adslot-pr2 { display: inline-block; width:300px; float:right; margin: 6px 0px 12px 20px; }\n@media (max-width: 767px) { .adslot-pr2 { display: none; } }\n<\/style><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- 300x250 photo editing top responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle adslot-pr2\"     \n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4356542292\"\n     data-ad-format=\"rectangle\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<p><strong>Important:<\/strong> One thing to note up front here is that not all images actually <em>have<\/em> any areas in them that are supposed to be neutral gray, and obviously, you can't find what's not there, so if that's the case with your photo, no technique for finding midtone gray will work. In cases where it's unlikely that anything in the photo should  be gray, your best bet is to color correct the highlights and shadows and leave the midtones alone. If there <em>is<\/em> an area that's supposed to be neutral gray, though, this technique will find it. <\/p>\n<p>And now with that  little disclaimer  out of the way, let's get started! I'll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout this tutorial, but any recent version will work.<\/p>\n<aside><p class=\"members-ad-top\"><a href=\"\/print-ready-pdfs\/\">Download all of our Photoshop tutorials as PDFs!<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.ads-middle { display: inline-block; width:300px; margin:6px 0px 24px 0px; padding-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; }\n@media (max-width: 515px) { .ads-middle { margin:20px 0; } }\n@media (max-width: 480px) { .ads-middle { margin:20px 0; } }\n<\/style><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- photo effects 300x250 middle responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle ads-middle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4216941496\"\n     data-ad-format=\"rectangle\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<h4>Step 1: Add A New Layer<\/h4>\n<p>With our photo open inside Photoshop, the first thing we need to do is create a new blank layer, so click the <strong> New Layer<\/strong> icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to create a new blank layer above the Background layer:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-new-layer-icon.gif\" alt=\"The New Layer icon in the Layers panel in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"330\" height=\"237\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click on the New Layer icon.<\/div>\n<p>Nothing will happen in the document window, but we can see in the Layers panel that Photoshop has added a new blank layer named &quot;Layer 1&quot;:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-new-layer-added.gif\" alt=\"A new layer has been added in the Layers panel. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"330\" height=\"239\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Photoshop adds the new layer and names it \"Layer 1\".<\/div>\n<h4>Step 2: Fill The New Layer With 50% Gray<\/h4>\n<p>Next, we need to fill our new layer with 50% gray, the  same  gray we're looking for in our image. To do that, go up to the <strong>Edit<\/strong> menu at the top of the screen and choose <strong>Fill<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/edit-fill.gif\" alt=\"Selecting the Fill command in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"264\" height=\"153\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Go to Edit > Fill.<\/div>\n<p>This opens Photoshop's Fill dialog box. Select <strong>50% Gray<\/strong> from the drop-down list at the top of the dialog box:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-fill-command.gif\" alt=\"Setting the Use option to 50% Gray in the Fill dialog box in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"371\" height=\"257\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Set the Use option to 50% Gray.<\/div>\n<p>Click OK when you're done to close out of the dialog box. Photoshop fills the new layer with gray, temporarily hiding the photo below it from view in the document window:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-50-gray.gif\" alt=\"The Photoshop document is filled with 50% gray. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"576\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The new layer is now filled with 50% gray.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 3: Change The New Layer's Blend Mode To 'Difference'<\/h4>\n<p>Go up to the <strong>Blend Mode<\/strong> option in the top left of the Layers panel and change the blend mode for Layer 1 from Normal to <strong>Difference<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-difference-blend-mode.gif\" alt=\"Selecting the Difference blend mode in the Layers panel in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"347\" height=\"239\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Change the blend mode for Layer 1 to Difference.<\/div>\n<p>The Difference blend mode isn't one that's used too often since it tends to make images look, well, different (some may even say frightening), as we see with my image after changing the blend mode to Difference:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/image-difference.jpg\" alt=\"The photo after changing the blend mode to Difference in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"647\" height=\"450\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The Difference blend mode certainly makes photos look different.<\/div>\n<p>Believe it or not though, there is a method to the madness. The way the Difference blend mode works is that it compares the layer with the layer(s) below it and looks for differences between them (hence the name). Any areas in the layer which are different from the layer(s) below it show up as strange colors in the image, which is where the purples, blues and yellows are coming from, but any areas which are identical between the layers show up as black, or at least almost black if they're not 100% identical but still pretty darn close to it. In other words, with the Difference blend mode, any areas between the layers which are identical become the darkest parts of the image, and we can now use that to locate any areas that are supposed to be neutral gray! <\/p>\n<p>How? Simple! We're now comparing our image on the Background layer with the layer above it that's filled with 50% neutral gray, which means that any areas in our image which are closest to that midtone gray color will now appear as the darkest parts of our image. So now, finding a midtone gray area is as easy as finding the darkest part of the image! <\/p>\n<h4>Step 4: Add A Theshold Adjustment Layer<\/h4>\n<p>Click on the <strong>New Adjustment Layer <\/strong>icon at the bottom of the Layers panel:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/new-adjustment-layer-icon.gif\" alt=\"The New Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers panel in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"330\" height=\"249\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click on the New Adjustment Layer icon.<\/div>\n<p>Choose <strong>Threshold<\/strong> from down near the bottom of the list of adjustment layers:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/select-threshold.gif\" alt=\"Selecting a Threshold adjustment layer in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"177\" height=\"103\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Choose \"Threshold\".<\/div>\n<p>If you're using Photoshop CS5 as I am, the Threshold controls will appear in the <strong>Adjustments Panel<\/strong>, new to CS5. In Photoshop CS4 or earlier, the Threshold dialog box will appear. Click on the little white triangle at the bottom and drag it all the way to the left:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/threshold-adjustment.gif\" alt=\"Photoshop Threshold image adjustment. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"318\" height=\"260\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Drag the white slider all the way to the left.<\/div>\n<p>This will turn the image in the document window completely white:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/image-white.gif\" alt=\"The image is now completely white in the document window. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"576\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The document window now appears filled with white.<\/div>\n<p>Now slowly drag the triangle towards the right until you begin to see black areas appearing in your image. The first black areas that appear are the neutral gray areas you're looking for (assuming, as I mentioned at the beginning of the tutorial, that there actually <em>are<\/em> areas of gray in the photo). Continue dragging the triangle until an area of black becomes just big enough that you'll be able to click on it to select it, which we'll be doing in a moment. This is the exact same way you would normally find the darkest parts of the image when you're removing any color casts from the shadow areas, but now, thanks to the Difference blend mode, these darkest areas represent the areas closest to midtone gray. Click OK when you're done to exit out of the Threshold dialog box (Photoshop CS5 users can simply leave the Adjustments Panel open):<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/image-black-area.gif\" alt=\"The small black area represents the midtone grays in the image. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"647\" height=\"450\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Drag the white slider towards the right until a small area of black appears.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 5: Click On The Black Area With The Color Sampler Tool <\/h4>\n<p>Select Photoshop's <strong>Color Sampler Tool<\/strong> from the Tools panel. By default, it's nested behind the Eyedropper Tool, so click and hold on the Eyedropper Tool for a second or two until a fly-out menu appears, then select the Color Sampler Tool from the list:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-color-sampler-tool.gif\" alt=\"The Color Sampler Tool in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"221\" height=\"176\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Select the Color Sampler Tool.<\/div>\n<p>With the Color Sampler Tool selected, click on an area of black in the image to add a marker. <strong><a href=\"\/basics\/photoshop-zoom\/\">Zoom<\/a><\/strong> in on the area first if it makes it easier to select your black area, as I've done here:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/click-black.gif\" alt=\"Clicking on an area of black with the Color Sampler Tool. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"648\" height=\"450\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">A small target symbol will appear at the spot you click on with the Color Sampler Tool.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 6: Delete The 50% Gray and Theshold Layers<\/h4>\n<p>Our layer filled with 50% gray and our Theshold adjustment layer have served their purpose and are no longer needed, so with the Threshold adjustment layer currently selected in the Layers panel, hold down your <strong>Shift<\/strong> key and click on Layer 1 below it to select both layers at once. Then drag them down on to the <strong>Trash Bin<\/strong> icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to delete them:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/drag-to-trash.gif\" alt=\"Dragging the top two layers onto the Trash Bin in the Layers panel. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"330\" height=\"312\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Drag the top two layers onto the Trash Bin.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 7: Add A Levels Or Curves Adjustment Layer<\/h4>\n<p>Click once again on the <strong>New Adjustment Layer<\/strong> icon at the bottom of the Layers panel  and this time, select either <strong>Levels<\/strong> or <strong>Curves<\/strong>, you're choice. Either one will do. I'll use Levels:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/select-levels-adjustment.gif\" alt=\"Selecting a Levels adjustment layer in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"177\" height=\"150\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Choose either Levels or Curves from the list of adjustment layers.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 8: Select The 'Set Gray Point' Eyedropper<\/h4>\n<p>As with the Threshold adjustment layer, Photoshop CS5 users will find the controls for Levels or Curves in the Adjustments Panel, while CS4 and earlier users will see the Levels or Curves dialog box appear. Click on the <strong>Set Gray Point<\/strong> eyedropper to select it (it's the middle of the three eyedropper icons):<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-gray-point-eyedropper.gif\" alt=\"The Set Gray Point eyedropper in the Levels dialog box in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"333\" height=\"294\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The Set Gray Point eyedropper is the middle of the three.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 9: Click With The Eyedropper On The Marker In The Image<\/h4>\n<p>With the Set Gray Point eyedropper selected, simply click directly on the small marker in the image (the one we added a moment ago with the Color Sampler Tool) and Photoshop will neutralize the colors in that spot, effectively removing any color cast from the midtones.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don't find the eyedropper icon to be very helpful when trying to click on a marker, so you may want to press the <strong>Caps Lock<\/strong> key on your keyboard which will change the icon from an eyedropper to a target symbol, identical to the marker's icon, making it easy to  line them up over top of each other and then click. I'll leave mine set to the eyedropper icon here just to make it easier to see in the screenshot:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/click-gray-point-marker.jpg\" alt=\"Clicking on the gray point marker in the image. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"647\" height=\"450\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click directly on the marker to neutralize the midtones in the image.<\/div>\n<p>And with that one click, any color cast in the image's midtones has been neutralized:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/photoshop-midtones-color-cast.jpg\" alt=\"The color cast in the midtones has been removed. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"647\" height=\"450\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Any midtone color cast has been removed.<\/div>\n<h4>Step 10: Remove The Marker<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the color sampler marker from the image when you're done, with the Color Sampler Tool selected, simply click on the <strong>Clear<\/strong> button in the Options Bar at the top of the screen (don't worry if you forget to remove the marker since it won't print anyway):<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-editing\/neutral-gray\/color-sampler-tool-clear.gif\" alt=\"The Clear button for the Color Sampler Tool in Photoshop. Image &copy; 2010 Photoshop Essentials.com\" width=\"481\" height=\"69\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click the Clear button to remove the color sampler marker.<\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.ads-bottom { width:300px; padding-top:16px;padding-bottom:16px; }\n<\/style><div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- 300x250 page bottom responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle ads-bottom\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"2879809098\"\n     data-ad-format=\"rectangle\"\n\t data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>And there we have it! Our midtones are now color corrected without any guess work thanks to Photoshop's often overlooked <strong>Difference<\/strong> blend mode. 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