Photoshop separate tones to create beautiful scenery

In cloudy days filming scenery, the ambient light contrast is not strong enough to make the screen appear gray, can not bring enough visual impact. Using the digital darkroom tool provided by Photoshop, the image is processed into a two-tone high-contrast image to improve the landscape. Applying the split tone in Photoshop is not as effective as using the separate tonal palette directly in Adobe Camera Raw to adjust the color of the light and shade, but it provides us with richer and more powerful control options, which can help us to get more delicate processing results.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the powerful black and white commands to treat color photos as high contrast black-and-white photos based on poor color information in the screen. High contrast tone can highlight the appearance and texture of the scene, thus enhancing the overall visual impact of the work. Black and white commands to provide a number of tone control slider, the beginner may accidentally because of the setting of errors resulting in high light exposure or the loss of dark details of the problem, using a preset is a simple and safe choice. In addition, we will also tell you how to use non-destructive editing methods for the screen to highlight and deepen the processing, so that the details become more prominent.

1, open the file

Start Photoshop, and execute the file > Open command. In the Pop-up File Browser dialog box, select a scenery photo, click on the Open button to open it directly in the main Photoshop screen, you can see because of the impact of the weather conditions, the screen color and contrast are not ideal.

2, Go Color command

The most straightforward way to process a photo in black and white is to perform the "Adjust > go" command under the Image menu, but it does not provide any setup options. Use this method to treat our photos in black and white without any improvement to the tone of the picture. So, we perform the Edit > Restore command to undo the color processing.

3, Black and white command

Black and white commands are not long in Photoshop, but they have become one of the most popular features of photographers. It can make full use of color information in the picture into a beautiful black-and-white works, then we will use it to work on this landscape, the implementation of the "Layer > New Adjustment layer > Black and white" command.

4. Set options

The black and White commands provide 6 adjustment sliders to help us control the brightness of different colors in the process of black and white conversion, we can adjust them manually according to the effect we pursue, but it is easy for beginners to cause the loss of high light or dark information. The safest way to do this is to select the appropriate preset from the top preset drop-down menu.

5, Infrared preset

Works of different types and colors are suitable for different types of presets and need to be lost when choosing. Our work is ideal for using the infra-red preset, which can greatly crush the sky and the sponge, bringing a sharp contrast to the ground and the waves, and greatly enhancing the visual impact of the screen.

6, new layer

To highlight the island, we need to adjust the contrast. Then we want the waves in the foreground to be more white. Such local brightening or dimming operations can also be done through non-destructive editing, by clicking the New Layer button on the layers panel to create a blank layer.

7, Mixed Mode

Double-click the label of the new layer in the Layers panel to rename it to dodge deepen. The Edit > Fill command is set to 50% Gray using the Drop-down menu. Open the Blending mode drop-down menu on the upper left side of the layers panel, change the layer blending mode to overlay, and the filled Gray disappears to reveal the underlying layer.

8, improve the contrast

Select the Dodge tool, set the range to high light in the upper options bar, set the exposure to 40%, and set the brush size to 250 pixels. The high light portion of the background island is smeared to make it stand out from the Black Sea water. Then in the foreground of the wave on the smear, enhance the contrast and three-dimensional waves.

9. Gradient Mapping

Follow the layer > new adjustment layer > Gradient Map command to click the OK button in the New Layer dialog box that pops up. Click the shaded gradient strip preview in the property artboard to open the Gradient Editor dialog box, the default setting is the first option in the preset window-the foreground color to the background color gradient.

10, Shadow Color

We can set a new gradient using the gradient strip below the Gradient editor window. Click the Black label in the lower-left corner of the gradient bar to select it, click the color swatch in the lower color label Settings area to open the Picker window, and set the shaded section color to h220°, s75%, b80%, and click OK.

11, High light color

Click the white color mark in the lower-right corner of the gradient bar, open the Color Picker window, and set the highlights to orange with a strong blue contrast, set to h30°, s100%, and b80%. Click the OK button to return to the gradient editor, and then click OK to complete the gradient settings.

12. Mixed adjustment

The gradient map adjusts the current color settings of the layer too exaggerated, we need to set it naturally some. The layer blending mode is set to overlay and the opacity is lowered to 44%, so that we get a two-tone black-and-white photo with highlights as warm tones and shaded parts as cool tones.

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