Post Production Tutorial 2

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Step 1

Open up the image and immediately duplicate the background layer. Now create a new gradient Map (image-adjustments-gradient map) Make sure the gradient map is set from black to white and click ok and set the layers opacity level to 60%.

Step 2

Right click Layer 1 and select flatten image, now go into the channels tab and select the red channel change the contrast of the channel to 40 (image, adjustments, brightness/contrast) and click Ok. Now select the green channel, but give it a contrast value of 30.

Step 3

Still in inside the channels tab select the RGB channel and open up the hue and saturation dialog box (image-adjustments-hue and saturation). Set the saturation value to 15 and click ok.

Step 4

Go back to the layers panel, duplicate the layer, set the layer mode to soft light and set the Opacity value to 52%. Finally flatten the image and you’re done.

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