Photoshop to pull out the HDR tones of foreign portrait textures

In the rush to travel in the humanities, inadvertently often there will be large potential. Don't let the color of the original film hinder it to become a large area of the road, only with color temperature and other options such as the simple adjustment to achieve the film tone, the travel humanities photos into a documentary style blockbuster.

A survey of travel photos in the early stage

The original film background color green, need to be adjusted in the latter part of the first modification. The character dress is blue, can adjust the color temperature to the blue when changing the hue. Pomegranate color is too yellow, need to weaken the yellow screen. The texture of the metal is not reflected in the original film. Adjust the definition to realize the further sharpening of the character body.

Adjust basic options manually move closer to the movie tone

To achieve the film tone needs in the screen color palette bold use of complementary colors, reduce the saturation of color, increase the color of the screen and hit colors.

1. Modify the color temperature to determine the main hue

To import the original artwork into the Lightroom, you first need to determine the main color of the picture. Through the adjustment of the color temperature value to 18, this adjustment will make the overall color temperature of the picture in favor of blue, and let the screen from the original piece of the green background adjustment over the first step. Realize the role of tonal adjustment unification. After the main hue is unified, adjust the hue to-4, making a natural transition between the light blue and the green in the screen. In the first step of the adjustment in the beginning, according to the desired effect of the screen to determine the overall picture tone is the final effect of a key step.

2. The exposure adjusts the overall brightness of the picture

Adjust the exposure value of the picture to-0.46 to reduce the image exposure. The original film can be overexposed to the details of the correction, dark screen for the subsequent high light correction and light adjustment.

3. Increase Black to change dark hue

Adjust the black color level to 29, the entire picture will be more prominent in the dark part. But the dark part of the screen will lose details, according to the picture appropriate to increase the black color.

4. Adjust the light according to the picture skillfully

Complete the above two steps of operation, the screen will be much darker than the original film. Drag the effect adjustment to the screen to fill the light, the effect set to 32.

5. Adjust the hue of the shading area in detail

Adjust the color curve in the picture, highlight the high light region value 31, the pressure of the dark light region set to-24. The enhanced screen shadow effect is set to-30.

6. Adjust Brush Erase background color

Click on the Adjust brush, clicking the Auto Mask. Because changes to the hue cause the background color to change too much, use an adjustment brush to erase the extra color to make it more natural.

Other late style

If you think the late steps are complicated, you can also try adding filters directly. Now more and more people will directly use the filter effect, a variety of tonal adjustment. You can first adjust the preset effect in LIGHTROOM3, you can first watch the filter effect, and then further adjust the color temperature and other options. On this basis, you can get different filter effects, each one has a unique late effect, in the attempt to find different photo style.