Create sweet portrait photos in Lab mode

Color Matching method is very unique, although the operation is a little more complex, but the effect is very good. Thought: First in RGB mode, many times with the calculation of the picture of high light, midtones, dark part of the constituency. You can then call these three parts of the selection in lab mode, and adjust the color with the curve to get a very good result. Later back to RGB mode to polish it.

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Final effect

1, open the material picture in order to get "middle tune", we use the "multiply" function in "Calculation", select menu: Image > Calculation, set as follows.

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2, click on the "channel" panel, see the newly generated "Alpha 1".

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3, note that the figure 1 "calculation" parameters are selected in the red channel, because we are dealing with the person's photos, of course, which channel better make, to be further study, but usually people's photos of the red channel to do processing.

Another point to note is that in Figure 1 we have selected a "reverse phase". Similarly, we can use the "no reverse phase Check" and "Double reverse phase check" to obtain the other two channels, that is, "light" and "dark tune."

In fact, so far, are not absolute, for example, you can use other channels, you can use other mixed mode, so, we have three channels, they are approximately represented in turn, the light, midtones, dark tune.

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4, select the image-> mode->lab color, conversion to lab space to further adjust into lab I like to first put the brightness layer, in the channel panel light "Brightness" channel, hold down the "CTRL" and click on the Brightness channel, get a selection, and then press "CTRL + C" Copy this channel, click "Lab" channel back to normal mode, select the Layers panel, press "CTRL + V" To copy the brightness layer.

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5, select the layer, the blending option to select the "color" mode, opacity set to "20%" or so, this step is mainly to highlight the film, so that the film looks more translucent and bright and then back to the channel panel, Light ALPHA1 channel, hold down the "CTRL" and click on the Brightness channel, to obtain a constituency, that is, "bright tune" Constituency. Back to the Layers panel, select the Curve tool.

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