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Creating Pseudocolored Images in Photoshop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Jerry Sedgewick*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

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The method for creating pseudocolor in Photoshop can be done in few steps, but the image will not be colored in the conventional way. The conventional means for producing pseudocolor comes by using a look up table (LUT). This LUT is an overlay for making a range of colors according to choices provided by the software. The colors are matched to levels of brightness and darkness in the image (grayscale pixel values), typically from a short to long wavelengths. In that scenario, violet colors are matched to the black and near-black pixels and red to those dose to absolute white. Blue, yellow, green and orange become the mid-range pixel values.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2003