The idea and practice of color mixing of film film style with heavy tones

almost all of the mainstream digital cameras have a small contrast, dark color of the problem, filled with a thick and mediocre digital flavor. And the use of traditional film cameras, due to a variety of film chemical composition, imaging effect is decidedly different, forming a strong style, but also the charm of film.

For digital photography, although the different manufacturers of digital camera imaging style a little different, the camera also has style settings, but in order to ensure that the image details of the output to facilitate late adjustment, almost all the mainstream digital camera imaging has a small contrast, dark colors of the problem, filled with a thick mediocre digital flavor.

And the use of traditional film cameras, due to a variety of film chemical composition, imaging effect is decidedly different, forming a strong style, but also the charm of film.

As a result, digital photography for the late tone adjustment of the photos has become an essential step, through the late PS, not only can imitate the color style of various films, but also through later to achieve more tonal, so as to create a personal style of work.

There are a lot of color mixing tutorials on the internet, but most of the steps and parameters of the list, the idea of color matching is rarely involved, and a certain color matching method, often only suitable for a certain kind of photos, a type of photo often taste very different, so, master the thinking method of color palette, often than know a lot of color steps more important.

This time with the film-tone style adjustment For example, to say a little bit of color thinking problems. Let's look at the original image first.

We can analyze the characteristics of this film-tone style, dark angle, dark-green, bright yellow orange, the sky was crushed into a green hue, forming a deep mood. As shown in Figure I.

Figure I

So our color palette can be developed according to these characteristics.

First we can create a dark angle and blue-green sky effect, create a new layer, with a circular gradient pull a from white to dark green effect, the layer blending mode to multiply the bottom. As shown in Figure II.

Figure II

At this time we in order to make the tree red and yellow brighter, the sky blue is more blue and green deep, you can use the "optional color" to adjust each color.

At this point, many people will use the "image"-"Adjust" menu to adjust, if this adjustment needs to be repeated many times, it will often cause a huge loss of quality, we can use a special layer "adjustment layer" to adjust, in the layers of the panel below the layer to add adjustment options (as shown in Figure three), After that, we can adjust the parameters of these layers over and over again to implement reversible adjustments.

Figure Three

Optional color parameters such as figure, the main idea is to strengthen the brightness and purity of red and yellow, depress the purity of cyan and blue and make it green.

Adjust to pay attention to the changes in the screen, adjust do not excessive to avoid color distortion. As shown in Figure four.

Figure Four

Then we add a "color balance" of the adjustment layer, the intention is more red-yellow light, dark more blue-green, so we adjust the color balance panel inside the "High light" and "shadow", parameters such as Figure five:

Figure Five

Finally, we can increase the level of color, curve, saturation and other adjustment layer, slightly adjust the screen exposure and color saturation, and finally get the effect of the picture, such as Figure six:

Figure Six

This late color palette of PSD files, remember to save it, because the adjustment layer and the original image of different layers, in this PSD file, we can drag other pictures in place of the original picture, and according to the difference of the photos slightly change the parameters of the adjustment layer, you can get similar style of the series of pictures, Here are a set of pictures that you get from the same palette you use.

1, the adjustment layer is often overlooked by the photographer later skills, it can not only better retain details, reduce the late loss of detail. And it's pretty good to keep the whole set of photos in the same style.

2, digital photo tonal adjustment, do not simply rote steps, but is good at understanding each operation intention and goal, is the correct learning method.

3, the photo itself is very different, so can not always use a certain style of all the film, but to be good at analysis, extrapolate, bold attempt, is the digital later way.

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