PS production of film and television plays commonly used in the cyan color

PS production of film and television plays commonly used in the cyan color

Green-Yellow is the film and television drama commonly used color scheme, such as "Why Sheng Xiao," "Tough Guy 2" "West Wind" and so on, are used in the film this tone, this example to explain its specific production methods.

Adjust the train of thought

When making the effect of this example, you should grasp some key points, that is, green yellow, dark angle and upper and lower black boxes. One of the suitable range of cyan, but it is recommended to use the middle tone or darkened the main photos, with the film commonly used in dark corners and black boxes and other elements, will let the photos show the same visual effect of the film screenshot.

Technical analysis

In this case, it's most important to make cyan yellow, but in fact its production method is very simple, as long as the "curve" command to the "blue" channel to edit it, and then combine the "high Contrast retention" filter, layer blending mode, "lens correction" filter and drawing techniques to add dark corners, improve the details and add a black box.

Steps for adjustment and repair

1, adjust the basic tone

As the material in this case is more normal in terms of exposure and material, the following starts to adjust it to a cyan-yellow hue. When dealing with other photos, the readers can correct and finish the photos according to the actual situation.

Click the Create new Fill or adjust Layer button, select the Curves command from the menu that pops up, get the curve 1 layer, select the blue channel in the Properties panel, and set the parameters to adjust the color of the photo.

2, calculate the details of the photos

Through the previous step of processing, the photo has basically had a green-yellow effect, the following to adjust its exposure, and enhance the details of the three-dimensional. In this case, it is more special to combine the "high Contrast retention" and "calculation" commands first, process the channel to get the details in the picture, and then apply the results to the layer mask that adjusts the layer so that you can adjust the brightness of the photo, and you can use the contrast in the mask to make the picture more detail-rich, More stereoscopic.

Display the Channels panel and copy the blue channel to get the blue copy channel.

Select the "Blue" channel is mainly because the contrast between the light and dark is not very strong, so the details are rich, conducive to retain more details after processing. However, it should be noted that if there are more noise in the photos, the "blue" channel in the noise will be particularly obvious, so you can be appropriate for noise reduction, or choose another appropriate channel.

Select the filter-other-high contrast hold command to set the RADIUS value to 2 in the pop-up dialog box, and click OK to exit the dialog box.

Select the blue Copy channel, select the image-Calculation command, and set the "blend" to "linear Light" in the pop-up dialog box, with other parameters remaining by default.

Click the OK button to exit the dialog box to complete the processing of the current channel and create a new Alpha 1 channel.