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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

High Contrast Photo Effect

We are going to learn how to give easily a photo to High Contrast effect.

Step 1: First open any image.

Step 2: Duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl+J.
Now apply the desaturate on the duplicated layer. Go to Image> Adjustments> Desaturate or press Ctrl+Shift+U.

Step 3: Now duplicate the desaturate layer by pressing Ctrl+J. We will see we have two black and white layers.


Step 4: Set the new desaturate layer blending mode to 'Screen' and Opacity to '55%'.

Step 5: Duplicate the original background layer by pressing Ctrl+J and move it to the top of the layers palette.
Change the background duplicate layer blending mode to 'Overlay'and Opacity to '75%'.



After that your Image looks like:


Step 6: Merge all layers onto a new layer at the top of the layers palette by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E.

Step 7: Go to Filter> Noise> Add Noise and use this settings:

Step 8: Apply sharpen to enhance the noise. Go to Filter> Sharpen> Smart Sharpen and use this setting:

Step 8: Click on the Create a new fill or adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and select curves.
When the Curves dialog box appears, simply click OK, do not change anything.

Step 9: Set the layer blending mode to 'Multiply' and Opacity to '80%'.

Here's the final result!


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

well done, awesome!

Anonymous said...

nice photo and brilliant tutorial :)

Sujith Edassery said...

good..it's a very useful tutorial..

Anonymous said...

Well I have been hard at work trying to mine detail using "Selects (Hi/Mid/Shadow)" and "Levels" as I thought the game was to try to max the detail in a beautiful composite.

Here we seem to end up with a dark, somewhat underexposed mid-shadow image + highlights.

I must be missing something as I ran this over a "horse head over snowy rail fence photo" and did not see an gold medal image. Color was of course almost gone.

Anyway, I will keep at it.

Old Man Gee Two

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Robert Smith said...

Awesome high contrast making tutorial. It helped me a lot. Thanks

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