Cyan is a very nice tone and it gives romantic look for your picture background . In this tutorial i will tell
you some basic techniques to get that tone .
We will use this stock:
1. Use RGB Channel:
1a. Duplicate your base. Choose Channel, choose Green, Ctrl+A. Then
Ctrl+C to copy it. Choose Blue, then Ctrl+V to paste into. Choose RGB
and then come back to layer pallet. We can see the change of color from
yellow into light cyan. We need to strengthen the tone.
1b. New selective color. We will see the result of these two ways, and
depending on your pic tone you can adjust parameters. I just adjust
difference of Cyan channel and let see the different results:
- Red:-45,-18,0,0
Cyan: 100,-36,-100,0
White:-30,-39,-23,0
Neutral:12,0,-26,0.
Black:100,100,100,0.
2. Use Channel mixer:
2a. After duplicating your base, create new channel mixer layer:
Red:139,8,-22,-10
Green:6,105,15,0
Blue:0,146,0,-6
2b. New selective color to strengthen the tone:
Cyan:100,100,0,0
Blue:100,0,0,0
Black:100,100,100,0
Or: Color balance ( to compare the effect)
Midtones:-33,0,10
Shadows:2,-4,12
3. Use Lab color:
3a. Choose Mode-Lab color. Then duplicate your base. Choose channels,
choose a channel then Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C. Then choose b channel and
Ctrl+V. Choose Lab channel and then choose layer pallet. We have result:
Remember we cant save jpg format in lab color so we have to change color mode to RGB to save as jpg .
We need to brighten up the light on model.
Use lasso tool to create a selection around her.
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. Use Lab color: 3a. Choose Mode-Lab color. Then duplicate your base. Choose channels, choose a channel then Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C. Then choose b channel and Ctrl+V. Choose Lab channel and then choose layer pallet. We have result: i'm lost here.. mode lab? channel b?
After duplicating your pic, then from Menu, choose Image-Mode then you will see some color modes to choose :RGB color, CMYK, Lab color, MultiChanel...lets choose Lab color. Then an annoucement will appear to ask you :Flatten image before mode changes? let choose Don't flatten. See on layer pallete, click Channels you can see Lab, Lightness, a, b. Choose channel a, press Ctrl+A to select it, then Ctrl+C to copy. Then click on channel b, press Ctrl+V to paste selected channel ( channel a) to b channel. Then click Channel Lab ( from channel pallete) you can see the result.
