Forums > Digital Art and Retouching > How they achieve this AMAZING AFFECT?

Photographer

rinaldosata photography

Posts: 19

London, England, United Kingdom

Hello everybody,
lately I've been seeing many professional photographies with this effect.
The shades and the "blacks" look like they are coloured. They give colour to the dark parts of the image. HOW THEY DO IT???
please help me!

http://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/Portf … 0687/Image
http://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/Portf … b754/Image
http://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/Portf … e389/Image
http://www.korayparlak.com/EN/Work/Late … laire/997/
http://www.korayparlak.com/EN/Work/Late … laire/997/

The shades look like blue, or violet or green. But just the shades, all the other colours are kept quite original.

what do you think?

Aug 11 14 04:07 pm Link

Photographer

NothingIsRealButTheGirl

Posts: 35726

Los Angeles, California, US

Raise the bottoms of the r, g and b curves.

Aug 11 14 04:15 pm Link

Photographer

NothingIsRealButTheGirl

Posts: 35726

Los Angeles, California, US

Make a layer of color, put it above and play with blend modes, particularly screen.

Aug 11 14 04:16 pm Link

Photographer

NothingIsRealButTheGirl

Posts: 35726

Los Angeles, California, US

Make a luminosity mask and use it to replace part of the image with another layer.

Aug 11 14 04:17 pm Link

Photographer

NothingIsRealButTheGirl

Posts: 35726

Los Angeles, California, US

Maybe play with a colored layer and the 'blend-if' sliders

Aug 11 14 04:20 pm Link

Photographer

NothingIsRealButTheGirl

Posts: 35726

Los Angeles, California, US

Selective color layer adjustment and change the blacks so that the yellow slider moves negative.

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This one seems to be the quickest

https://jfrancis.smugmug.com/photos/i-L43trbF/0/M/i-L43trbF-M.jpg

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Aug 11 14 04:22 pm Link

Photographer

rinaldosata photography

Posts: 19

London, England, United Kingdom

thank you for the answer, I did how you told me but I still cannot do it.
when I play with the colours, the colours change in the whole picture, instead I want to change just the blacks and the dark shades

sad

please tell me more, I really appreciate it

Aug 11 14 04:36 pm Link

Photographer

rinaldosata photography

Posts: 19

London, England, United Kingdom

oh now I'm gonna try, thank you!!!!

Aug 11 14 04:37 pm Link

Photographer

rinaldosata photography

Posts: 19

London, England, United Kingdom

Thank you very much man!! NothingIsRealButTheGirl
is amazing!! for months and months I was wondering how they do it and now you just answered me and I achieved it! Thanks again!!
wink

I will ask you other things in the future because you are too good!!

Aug 11 14 04:44 pm Link

Photographer

niesje

Posts: 16

Dendermonde, East Flanders, Belgium

Thanks, this is a good one :-)

Aug 15 14 12:35 pm Link