#hnd2bimaging

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Reyes Instagram Colour Grade

I love the instagram filters so researched some instructions on how to do Reyes. Steps below..

1. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layers>Brightness/Contrast.

Decrease the contrast to -45.

2. decrease more by; duplicating a layer, press Ctrl+J/Cmd+J.

3. Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Vibrance

Decrease the vibrance all the way down to -100

4. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Photo Filter.

Rather than going with a preset, we are going to choose a color by ourselves. Select color and then click on the color thumbnail.

Put the HEX color code as #f8b558. Click OK.

Now increase the density to 44%.

5. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Brightness/Contrast.

Increase the brightness to 108.

(excuse the of colour of my screenshots)

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Stylish Strangers layout and keylines

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Glass optimization.

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For the Wait for it brief black and white conversion I used Photoshop, I used the Gradient map in layers, enhancing the highlights in areas using a curve adjustment layer.

For the Rush hour brief black and white conversion, I used Raw, adjusting the colour sliders to create a good conversion then boosting the contrast and texture. Ensuring the shadows and highlights were not out.

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Layer Masking excercise

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Lighting techniques

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Colour & Psychology

colour grade with saturation -40, red & blue curves & red & blue levels adjustments.

https://fstoppers.com/post-production/color-grade-pro-secret-cinematic-imagery-9545

Orange and teal colour grade added using channel mixer adjustment layer & hue saturation adjustment layer

https://www.diyphotography.net/create-orange-teal-many-looks-using-two-adjustment-layers/

This colour grade was done by three adjustment layers, hue/sat, curves & levels but with a gold colour fill added

https://contrastly.com/how-to-color-grade-your-photographs/

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Creating an Action;

Frequency Separation

Creating an action allows photoshop to remember the steps and stages you have set to recorded to be used again in a separate image in the same way you can create presets in Lightroom.