Use Lab channel to quickly create personalized oil painting pictures

Author：Eve Cole Update Time：2013-01-25 15:31:10

Source: Soft Photography Author: Soft Photography The production of this tutorial is very simple. Just copy the brightness channel in Lab mode, then paste it into the layer panel, and then appropriately reduce the opacity of the layer to get a very good neutral color picture. , the method is very simple and practical.
Original picture

final effect

1. Convert the picture to be processed with light tone to "Lab Color" (Image > Mode > Lab Color).

2. Click the "Lightness" layer in the "Channels" panel, then Ctrl+a (select all) → Ctrl+c (copy).

3. In the "History" panel, click to return to the step before converting to "Lab Color".

4. Ctrl+V (Paste), paste the "Brightness" layer copied in the previous step as a new layer.

5. The most critical effect step is to adjust the "Opacity" of the newly pasted "Brightness" layer to 80%, then merge the layers and you're done! (Of course you can also continue to adjust based on this...).

Final effect: