This tutorial is about beautifying grayscale photos by color adjustment and enhancing the color contrast and brightness of the image. The tutorial is relatively simple. When adjusting the color, you need to define the parameters yourself!
Original picture
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final effect
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The production steps are shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4
Open the original image, select menu: Image > Mode > LAB mode, then create a new layer, select menu: Image > Apply image parameter settings as shown in Figure 5. After confirmation, make a copy of this layer. Select the menu: Image > Mode > RGB Mode, change the blending mode of layer 1 to "Soft Light", the layer opacity to 50%, and the blending mode of layer 1 to "Color" and the opacity to :50%, the effect is shown in Figure 6. For other settings, refer to Figure 3 and Figure 4. You can control the parameters yourself when adjusting colors and curves. It doesn’t have to be the same as the tutorial. Try it a few times and the effect will come out!
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