Re: Images in show (Photoshop Technique)

Hey James, I just tried your fancy Photoshop tonal control technique very
very cool. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I think it's worth clarifing a few steps for those who may have had trouble
with your instructions. I think A few steps were missing.

Here's my revised instructions. (Done in PS7, will work in 6 & 5 too)

Once you have your image open in Photoshop, it's worthwhile having a
duplicate image converted to Grayscale to compare the results against. (Go
to Image>Duplicate, then to convert it to grayscale go to
Image>Mode>Grayscale)

Take your original colour image and duplicate the layer (should be called
'Background') by dragging it onto the new layer icon. You should now have
two identical layers. (The top one should be called 'Background copy').
Select the top image and set the blending mode from 'Normal' to 'Color'.
Nothing should happen to the image yet.

Now we need to create Adjustment Layers for both layers. Select the top
layer and add an Adjustment Layer by selecting the icon to the left of the
new layer icon, select 'Hue and Saturation'. In the Adjustment Layer
dialogue box, pull the saturation slider all the way to the left so it's at
-100, completely desaturated. You should now have a flat looking grayscale
image. The magic to this technique is when you add a second Hue and
Saturation Adjustment Layer to the bottom (Background) layer. Follow the
above steps to create a Hue and Saturation Adjustment Layer for the bottom
image layer. By sliding all of the Hue, Saturation and Lightness sliders
around you have pretty extensive tonal control over the image.

If you want to take this a step further, paint into the adjustment layers to
mask where the Adjustment layers are affecting the image. Painting (with
black) into the top Adjustment layer will restore colour into the painted
areas.

Hope this helps a few of you out there.
-William Mokrynski

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Received on Tue Sep 10 12:37:14 2002