How to adjust the elegant black and white effect

The reference film is a photograph taken by the famous Norwegian photographer Soway Sandpo (Solve sunsbo). Character temperament elegant, light and light texture prominent, through the dark surrounding background and fuzzy focus on the part of the main body, a good excavation of the inherent simplicity of the image, so that we have a more profound understanding of the word elegance.

Detailed steps

Adjust this kind of photos, we should mainly use Cameraraw software to adjust the photo to black and white photos, make dark angle, then use the PS filter lens blur to do the blur, and then in the mask to erase the need to keep the site.

The first step: in the camera raw software in the initial image

With Cameraraw software, the image can be adjusted preliminarily and the tone of the image is determined. In this step of adjustment, as far as possible to preserve the image of black, white, gray level.

Adjust in the "basic" panel. Reduce the "black" is to increase the level of the dark, to increase the "transparency" in order to improve the contrast of the picture High contrast, so as to improve the sharpness of the picture, reduce the "saturation" to make color pictures into grayscale images.

Enter the "Lens correction" panel to make the image dark around the effect. Adjust the number of "lens halo" and "trimmed Halo shadow" to adjust the location of the center point.

Step two: Use Photoshop to adjust the contrast of the image

For a black-and-white photograph, the transition between light and shade and black, white and grey is very important. There are a variety of ways to adjust image contrast, where we use the level tool to adjust the contrast and use the color Balance tool to adjust the color of the photo.

The adjusted image is a bit gray, so use the "level" tool to adjust the contrast of the picture, so that the contrast between the light and shade of the photo more strongly. Note that the high light and shadow parts can only be fine-tuned, not tuned, otherwise the high light and shadow parts will lose levels.

Use "Color balance"-"midtones" to adjust the color to make the picture slightly bluish-green.

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