I was watching an old movie the other day, and just fall inlove of the colors of some of the scenes. Tried to replicate them a couple of hours without success (tried curves, color balance, gradient map and nothing, I can get a littlebit close but cant get it ). So I decided to ask people with more experience for some kind of advice...
As far as I can see, the blues and green are busted up, some desaturation and no true black... but even so, it was impossible for me to replicate this -.-
Not knowing what editing suite you're using: In the current version of Paint Shop Pro there is a an effect called "time machine" that changes to simulate results from older photography eras. There could be something analogous in other editors.
Peano
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Alejandro Crespo wrote: I'd never tried to change a picture colors so drastically, so I really cant figure out what logic to use here .
Which of the five target images are you trying to emulate? They're all different, and in any case I think the color changes will be more subtle than drastic. Also, note that the lighting in this image is different from any of the target images, and that's an important variable.
Play with individual color channels, as well as the recovery feature in Adobe Camera Raw through Adobe Bridge.
I think I got close to what you're looking for with these settings... Temperature -4, Tint +10, Recovery 55, Fill Light 55, Blacks 15, Brightness +14, Contract +47, Clarity -7, Vibrance +5, Saturation +13
Halcyon 7174 NYC wrote: Play with individual color channels, as well as the recovery feature in Adobe Camera Raw through Adobe Bridge.
I think I got close to what you're looking for with these settings... Temperature -4, Tint +10, Recovery 55, Fill Light 55, Blacks 15, Brightness +14, Contract +47, Clarity -7, Vibrance +5, Saturation +13
Thanks, I got similar results playing playing with curves, color balance and vibrance/hue inside PS, but this way was much faster .
Yep I know that the lighting is different, but that was just for experimental purposes, I didnt had any picture similar to the examples I showed here . I suppose that I gonna try some reversal engineering tomorrow (its 1am here) with the samples and try to get an idea about that. What I noted is that:
1.The highlights have some blue and are littlebit dessaturated
2.There is a weak color haze in all the images (yellow/white in the first one and blue/green in the rest)
3.In some areas there are color gradients, like vignettes.
4.Midtones are quite similar in the overall image (skin and cloth), with a lot of yellow and some blue highlights.
5.There isnt a lot of details in the shadows
Thanks for the plugins, but like I said, I do not use them . I wanna achieve this look for some photos of mine in the future and dont want to lose the control over the processing.
Peano
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Washington, District of Columbia, US
This is pretty subjective. Here's my go at it using curves and selective color adj layers. If it's close to what you're after, let me know and I'll send you the psd file.
). So I decided to ask people with more experience for some kind of advice...
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