The beautiful Sunrise gave the Earth the breath of life, this photo taken in the xingkaihu of Heilongjiang revealed a hint of beauty, in post-processing, using the "gradient map" for the photo to render a strong sunrise atmosphere, and then through the "curve" to reduce the brightness of the image, using the "gradient tool" to adjust the mask range, and finally take advantage of the "color scale", "brightness /contrast "Adjusts brightness and contrast, highlighting the level of sense."
Using gradient fills to render the sunrise atmosphere
Adjust the contrast effect by "curve"
Apply "color scale" to highlight highlights
Open the jpg file, copy the background layer, use the patch tool to remove the dark corner area in the upper-left corner of the photo, create a hue/saturation adjustment layer, and select full picture in the Properties panel. Set "saturation" to +31 to increase the saturation of the screen.
Click the Create new Fill or adjust Layer button in the Layers panel, select Gradient on the Open shortcut menu, open the Gradient Fill dialog box, set the gradient color in the dialog box, and fill the gradient effect for the image.
Select the gradient Fill 1 adjustment layer in the Layers panel, set the layer blending mode to soft light, create a curve adjustment layer after setting, drag the curve, and reduce the brightness of the screen.
Select the Gradient tool, select the gradient type to symmetric gradient, click the foreground to transparent gradient option, and use the mouse to fill the gradient on the image in the Curve 1 layer to deepen the edge area.
Press the CTRL key while you click the curve 1 layer thumbnail to load the selection. When you select a selection, click the Curve button in the adjustments panel, create a curve adjustment layer, use the mouse drag curve in the Properties panel, adjust the contrast of the image in the selection, and highlight the level of the screen.
Create a color balance adjustment layer, and in the Properties panel, set the color values for midtones and shadows, to enhance the sunrise atmosphere.
Click the Gradient Map button in the adjustments panel, create a gradient map adjustment layer, click the purple, orange gradient option, and then in the Layers panel, set the blending mode of the gradient map layer to dot light and opacity to 50%.
Stamped layers, execute the Select > Color Range menu command, open the Color Range dialog box, set the selection in the dialog box, create a selection, new "level" adjustment layer, and then set the color order values of 3, 1.94, 234, adjust the image within the selection.
Execute the Select > Color Range menu command, open the Color Range dialog box, reset the selection in the dialog box, create a selection, new level adjustment layer, set the color scale to 0, 1.03, 243, and then adjust the image in the selection, and then add the appropriate text effect to the image.
Final effect Diagram
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