Friday, July 25, 2008

Photoshop Technique

I do know that we are turning to study Adobe Flash in class, but I am still fascinated with Adobe Photoshop. Therefore today, I want to write about a Photoshop technique that is applied widely in the photography.

This picture above is applied some effect to make it look colder by adding more the blue color. Now I will guide you step by step how to make this effect. Let's start with the original picture.

Step 1: Open the picture with Adobe Photoshop and then Duplicate it by going: Image->Duplicate

Step 2: on the copy of your picture, go Image->Mode->Lab Mode, and then you go to to the Channel tab
Step 3 (Working on Channel a): click on the Channel a to active it and then you go to Filter->Gaussian Blur , set 5 pixels

Next, you press Command+L or Control+L on Windows, and a tab should appear. Now you set the Input Levels: 77, 1.00, 255

Step 4: Click on the Channel b, for this Channel, you do not need to apply Gaussian blur effect ^_^. Next, press Command+L or Control+L on Windows, you should set the Input Levels: 77, 1.4, 255

Step 5: you should select all the channel in the the Channel Tab( as the picture below)

And then, press Command+C or Control C on Windows to copy these channels

Step 6: go back to your original picture, and then press Command+V or Control+V on Windows to paste

And then you set the Mode of new layer to Overlay, and then you would set the opacity from 60% to 80 %.

1 comment:

NgĂ´ Anh Khoa said...

Ok i did see your work but actually i like the original picture :D . I think in this case you should put more warm color or green color (i like the Photoshop Technic tutorial!) to this picture. Adding more blue tone make your picture look like in wrong white balance. Hehe. Anyway, just some self opinion and keep going :))