Late Photoshop: 4 kinds of art-effect tone processing tutorial

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Painting Italian photography has always been an important form of portrait photography with its beautiful picture language and beautiful design connotation. Photographic photography, with its unique style, has

Become an important genre in the art of photography. In this issue, we will discuss the 4 tones of the effect of painting in detail, hoping to

Creative Help.

The characteristics of the picture

Photographic photography on the current photo studio photography, the main western oil painting and Chinese painting two effects, both of which can be produced through the computer.

Our main introduction Here is the art of painting the style of the post-production method of photography.

Western oil painting style with its dignified hue and tone to express the atmosphere and thickness of the picture, so this style of the background props of the picture of the tone and

Texture is very important. The strong dark background of a European pastoral background or a contrasting tone is more in line with the characteristics of oil painting. A good oil painting background can be guaranteed

We have a strong sense of space in our work.

The color expression of the picture

The tonal effect of the painting is usually to express a feeling. Painting the effect of portrait photos should be like oil painting to be able to render certain emotions, and photos

Color in favor of the color of the oil painting. The picture is generally embodied in the color above, usually the feeling of painting means that there is a kind of hazy and strong color

Color sense, so the focus of the production of pictures is the color and emotional expression.

The light characteristics of picture

One of the most difficult points in photo photography. Picture of the picture to have a dignified sense of tone, so, the light is basically a single lamp or

A single group of light source, and need to add auxiliary light to modify the light effect. Triangular light, butterfly light, omni-lateral light, etc. are our common oil painting pictures taken from the cloth

Light Way. In order to better express the picture of the oil painting color, low color temperature of the continuous light is the best choice, and, this light because of its own light quality

Hard, more conducive to the expression of oil painting like the effect of the film.

A starting point for the adjustment of an Italian tone

Usually the color of the picture is yellow-green, brown-tone, dark and bright tonal 4 kinds, in order to obtain different colors and the use of color method is not the same.

Dark tones are usually obtained by adjusting the saturation and brightness directly. Green and Brown are usually done after lowering the saturation.

Add color to get, such as green to add green, brown tone of the natural is added Brown. While the bright tones are different from the other tones, in the adjustment of the security

Hold the saturation unchanged, and then let the whole picture of the color as far as possible gorgeous, gorgeous tone is usually refers to the background.

The detailed requirements of the picture

The background of the picture is usually slightly hazy and softer, which we can achieve by using the "blur" effect in the Photoshop filter.

Or you can use the "Blur tool".

The skill and method of adjusting the effect of painting meaning

The first requirement of the picture is that the whole (light/shade/color) should be soft and the contrast should not be too large, so as to avoid too much high light and dark

, especially the character and background of the contrast can not be too large, and the character and background of the shadow area and the highlights of the contrast can not be too large, if the background

Contrast is too large, can be directly modified. Because in the post-processing, we will blur the background, so there is no transition unnatural place

Came up. If the face has a high light area resulting in greater contrast, try to minimize the facial contrast.

Notes on the adjustment of painting meaning effect

In the adjustment of the picture, we should pay attention to the light effect, background and face of light than not large, color should be uniform, color block should be uniform, color

Color contrast should be reduced as much as possible.

Yellow-green painting meaning effect

Fig. 1 before adjusting, the picture feels too flat, and the image is somewhat gray

Figure 1-1 After the color adjustment, the image has a strong sense of color

Key words: Patching tools, magnetic lasso, Gaussian blur, color balance, curve

Operation Steps

1. Observe the original image, the background of the picture is an abstract green canvas, the photographer in the early filming of the addition of color film, so that the overall color of the picture in favor of yellow-green tones.

As shown in Figure 1.

2. We'll simply decorate the photo with the "patching tool" and the "clone stamp." In the modification of the time, as far as possible to the contrast between the larger area

Transition processing. As shown in Figure 1-2

Figure 1-2 modifies the facial details of the character and lowers the contrast

3. After the adjustment of the details, the following needs to adjust the tone of the screen. First, adjust the background tone, where the characters are circle using the "Magnetic lasso" tool.

The ctrl+shift+i command is then executed, and the selection is feathered appropriately to get the background selection. As shown in Figure 1-3. At this point, you can

To adjust the background separately.

Figure 1-3 Feather value of 50 pixels

Principle of magnetic lasso tool

The reason for using the magnetic lasso tool to circle images is because the tool has the ability to automatically recognize the edges of objects, using it to quickly select back

The scene is complex, but the character edge is more clear image. When you select the tool, click the mouse at the edge of the character, and then move the cursor along his edge, when the cursor moves to the

Click to create a selection.

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When you draw a selection using the magnetic lasso tool, you can switch to the Lasso tool by pressing the ALT key and dragging the mouse, such as pressing the ALT key in another area

field, you can switch to a variable lasso tool to create a straight selection. Double-click in the process of drawing a selection to close the selection and end

Create an action.

4. Adjust the background of the light and shade. Click "Create new fill or adjust layer" in the "curve" command, in the Curve dialog box, select the green channel for Ming

Dark and tonal adjustments. As shown in Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-4 Using the Curve tool, adjust the value of the red channel

Note: This step of the light and shade adjustment related to the final end of the finished product effect, background and color should be as far as possible with the characters of light and shade and color coordination, thus

Avoid too much contrast.