How to use PS to simulate infrared photography

PS than the United States Mito, ligheroom, such as processing pictures of software difficult to learn much, but more professional, is a lot of photography enthusiasts must learn one of the software. It is not difficult to say, sometimes do not need to use a few steps, you can change a lot, make the picture you want the effect, next we will learn how in PS is how to simulate infrared photography.

The left of the image below is the normal shot, the right side is infrared photography (simulation)

Fig. 1 comparison between normal shooting and infrared photography

Then we start teaching!

Original piece Selection

Find a rich color, and there are more blue pictures, this original piece 75% are blue, very suitable for infrared photography film.

Figure 2 Artwork

Step one, open the original piece

Open the original slice in PS, then copy the background to layer (CTRL+J) and reverse the layer (ctrl+i)

Figure 3 Reverse the picture

Step two, color matching

Layer styles Blending Options Blending mode

Blending mode selection as color

Figure 4 Blending Mode color selection

After adjusting the figure below, the picture with orange and blue is the best.

Figure 5 Effect after adjustment

Step Three, channel mix

Layers new Adjustment Layer channel mixer

Color: No mode: normal opacity: 100%

Adjust red in output channel red to 0% Green to 0% blue to 100%

Adjust green in output channel channel green to 100% Red Blue to 0% (default)

In output channel blue, adjust red to 100% green to 0% blue to 0%

The following figure

Figure 6 Channel mixing interface

Render the following figure after adjustment

Figure 7 Effect after adjustment

Step four, hue/saturation

Create a new fill adjustment layer hue/saturation

Red and magenta channels reduce saturation

Red channel hue to yellow offset

The effect of the following figure

Fig. 8 Effect after saturation

Step Five, Cool filter

Slightly higher brightness

Create a new fill adjustment layer Photo filter

Select the cool filter and adjust it slightly to the appropriate color.

Figure 9 Selecting a filter

Figure 10 Final effect diagram

See it! Only five steps! Some friends will be able to because the number of images processed is different, and the resulting effect is not the same, this time in, in processing the picture, also must change the numerical value correspondingly, plays several times, may you make the effect will be better to see!ps these more specialized software is this, actually also not difficult , it may take more time to figure it out!

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