Pull up the fresh tones of the day that young girls like.

Let's talk about it briefly. Japanese color is now a lot of photographers love the style, the kind of sweet and fresh and lovely feeling on the faces, but also by many young girls love, then today photographer Ahwin (micro-letter: Hanbowen) Examples to explain, the Japanese tone of the late adjustment and ideas, a look at it.

Effect chart

This is a relatively hasty shooting, there is no too many ideas, just want to shoot a group of campus fresh students image, so chose to have a sweet appearance of the model Danny Shoes, but then the palette of the film I did not imagine to be that effect.

Original film

But it doesn't matter, it's important to learn the color palette from this tone.

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First, it was taken in completely natural light, and the photo was not so well lit that it made the model face heavier, like a sullen old lady, in order to ensure that the white dress was properly exposed.

Use Camera raw color palette

The full version of the Photoshop software, which will contain the palette of raw file designs,--camera Raw, which is similar to another software Lightroom, can help us to set the tone for the photo. In this step, we want to adjust the overall color of the photo to the fresh frame of the Japanese system.

1, basic

This picture of my white balance did not make any adjustments.

Increase the contrast, reduce the "white" represents the highlight of the section, in order to ensure that the exposure, I will make it to the left a large adjustment. "Black" was slightly strengthened.

Sharpness strengthens the edges, makes the photos look more textured, and therefore improves, and the saturation increases more so that it can achieve a more colorful and refreshing style.

2. Details

This part is straightforward, "sharpening" 90.

3, HSL

HSL Adjustment project will be for several major colors, you can more freely increase or decrease the color, adjust hue, brightness. For this photo, I have mainly improved the brightness of "orange". This, of course, is to improve the brightness of the model skin to make up for the weakness of the original model skin, the model will thank you after finishing it.

4. Separate tones

I added some light blue to the highlights, and the shaded part added orange and the overall saturation was 15 higher. The picture is covered with a layer of "candy wrappers" to make the picture more expressive.

5, Shadow

Prominent character is a good way to increase the shadow for the photo, according to the situation adjustment, here my parameters as shown, avoid adding too much, otherwise it will produce strange, scary atmosphere ...

The effect of using Lightroom to color:

Finish the palette into PS.

Cosmetic details

First of all, according to international practice before the photo, you have to create a copy, to ensure that the most original picture is preserved, so as not to encounter any problems after "can not go back to the former time."

Locate the repair Brush tool in the toolbar. On the screen of the flaws, especially the skin of the characters, some spots, acne, stripes and so on to kill.

This tool is not complex to use, like the Stamp tool, it will intelligently match the surrounding image elements of the effect, simple. The main need is patience, by adjusting the different drawing wall size to complete the final skin modification.

For this photo, I also decorated part of the hair, in order to make the whole more beautiful.

In addition to the face, all the cosmetic flaws in the photos need to be taken out at this point, such as the scars on the knee of the model mentioned earlier.

Adjust Lighting

Although the tone has been basically ready, but to make beautiful skin full of luster, fresh water, you can not less the adjustment of light and shadow. In the adjustment panel click "Create a new curve adjustment layer", the curve should be properly pulled up, this layer is to strengthen the bright part of the screen, need to highlight where, it is here. The same dark part is also the same.

The next thing to do is to be patient. Select the mask you just created to adjust the layer, use the Brush tool to select White, and draw in the place where you need to highlight the screen.

It is as if a make-up artist to the Model Foundation, so that the skin more shiny, that is, the actual shooting of the darker place can also be highlighted to achieve the overall transition of the natural effect.

The dark part of the reinforcement is also the same, the new curve adjustment layer, this time the curve and just the opposite, downward adjustment, the mask filled with black, continue to use a white brush on the mask painting, what to draw? To let the picture which place dark down, boldly draws!

Some people here may wonder why two of the adjustment layers are painted white? This is because we use a mask: Black is like a black cloth to cover our effect, so the adjustment will not take effect, and white will let the adjustment take effect. Now that we need to show some areas as they are adjusted, we need to draw with a white brush. In simple terms: a mask is a tool that blocks part of a part and exposes it.

Compared with the adjustment of the effect after the light, you can see that the model's skin is more shiny, and will not appear as listless as the original film. Including the whites, the pupil of the reinforcement, as well as the treatment of hair gloss, can make the picture overall upgrade a grade.

As shown on the right, curve adjustment can be done in several layers to make it possible to highlight and darken a part of a photo in varying degrees.

Effect after adjustment:

Press Ctrl+alt+shift+e (command+option+shift+e) to stamp all visible layers to merge all visible layers into a new layer so that all previous actions take effect for our subsequent operations.

Pull the leg

Violence lengthen the leg, establishes as the picture selection, then selects just stamped layer, presses the ctrl+t (comand+t) to change the selection, pulls down the picture a little can. The model will appreciate it.

Liquefaction

Because the model is in itself a little bit beautiful, so the operation will be very easy, simple liquefaction of the local, so that the overall look icing on the cake. such as a sharp chin, a little more thin arms, and so on. The use of liquefied function is not complicated, if a friend will not be used, please see my other tutorials.

After perfecting the work, I found that the color of the background is not clear enough, and the model has some Shong feeling, so I want to do some work to strengthen the background.

After setting up an adjustment layer, I still feel the background is not enough, I once again set up a similar adjustment layer, lifting 85, covering up the characters, opacity 50%, finally let me satisfied.

In the mask to cover the characters, with a black brush to draw the shape of the figure, so that enhanced contrast does not completely affect the model's original color and light and shade performance.

Add a little element to finish the final effect.

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• PS Image Processing