ETM+ Color Combination
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Navigate the menu control "File->Open". You really should be getting used to this by now!
Navigate your hard drive to the location you saved the Photoshop .psd file from the "Yellow_Blue Filter" step of this tutorial
Select the ".psd" file then click the "Open" button the open the file.
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With the file open, you should be able to switch to the other image you have been working on most recently in the last step.
If you have saved it, then you will need to open it as well. Make sure you save all your files as ".bmp" files. This is a lossless image format. Many of the images you use to develop this imagery can be deleted from your hard drive after the final images are "Delivered" and "Approved for Publication". You should not delete the files until they are "Approved for Publication".
Navigate the menu control "Select->Load Selection".
Change the "Source Document:" to the previous ".psd" file. that you saved after the last step in the tutorial, it will be the same ".psd" image you just loaded.
Change the "Channel" to the previous name you gave to the selection set. It may be something like "Land Selection" or "Water Selection". Shown in the image below.
With the land selected in the new "Magenta/Blue Filter" image you can click on the action "Land Color" in the floating "Actions" tool window.
Then click on the small play icon at the bottom of the floating "Actions" tool window. Shown in the bottom left of the image below.
Navigate the menu control "Select->Inverse" or press "Shift Ctrl I" on the keyboard to swap the selection set.
Then you can run the "Water Brightness" action by clicking on that action in the floating "Actions" tool window.
Then click the same small play icon at the bottom of the floating "Actions" tool window.
The final result should be something similar to the image shown below in the foreground.
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