Photoshop brings out the dark blue movie effect of landscape photos

Author：Eve Cole Update Time：2013-03-13 13:08:23

Source: Xinhua Photography Author: Unknown
This tutorial shows how to quickly create a movie-like effect. The dark tones of the picture are mainly dark cyan, and the bright parts are mainly orange, giving people a very comfortable feeling. After grasping this feature, we can use color correction tools to quickly adjust the desired effect.
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final effect

1. First, we can create a vignetting and blue-green sky effect, create a new layer, use a circular gradient to create an effect from white to dark green, and change the layer blending mode to Multiply.

2. At this time, in order to make the red and yellow of the tree brighter and the blue of the sky appear deeper and deeper, we can use "selectable color" to adjust each color separately.

At this time, many people will directly use the "Image"-"Adjustment" menu to make adjustments. If this adjustment requires many repeated adjustments, it will often cause huge losses to the image quality. We can use a special layer." "Adjustment Layer" to make adjustments. There is an option to add an adjustment layer at the bottom of the layer panel (as shown in the picture), so that we can repeatedly adjust the parameters of these layers in the future to perform reversible adjustments.

The parameters of the optional colors are as shown in the figure. The main idea is to enhance the brightness and purity of red and yellow, while reducing the purity of cyan and blue and making them greener. Pay attention to changes in the picture when adjusting, and do not adjust excessively to avoid color distortion.

3. Then we add a "Color Balance" adjustment layer. The intention is to make the bright parts more red-yellow and the dark parts more blue-green. Therefore, we adjust the "Highlights" and "Shadows" in the Color Balance panel respectively, and the parameters are The effect is as follows.

Finally, we can add adjustment layers such as levels, curves, and saturation, slightly adjust the exposure and color saturation of the picture, and finally get the effect picture.