How to switch to pictorial photography with pS?

1. Look at the original picture. The background of the photo is an abstract green canvas. The photographer added a color film in the early shooting, which made the overall tone of the photo biased towards yellow-green tone.

2. First, simply retouch the photos, and use "mending tools" and "imitating stamps". When decorating, try to transition to areas with large contrast. Modifying the facial details and reducing the contrast.

After adjusting the details, I want to adjust the color of the picture below. The first step is to adjust the background color. The "magnetic lasso" tool here is used to circle the characters. Then, run the "Ctrl+Shift+I" command to feather the selection appropriately to obtain the background selection. At this point, you can adjust the background separately.

Feather setting value is 50 pixels.

Principle of magnetic lasso tool

The reason why the "magnetic lasso" tool is used to select images is because it has the function of actively identifying the edges of objects and can quickly select images with complex backgrounds but clear edges of people. After selecting this tool, click the mouse on the edge of the character, and then drag the cursor along the edge of the character. When the cursor moves to the starting point, click the mouse to create a new selection.

Technical kanban

In the process of drawing a selection with the magnetic lasso tool, hold down the Alt key and click to move the mouse, which can be converted into a lasso tool; If you hold down the Alt key and click the mouse continuously in another area, it can be converted into a variable lasso tool, thus creating a new linear selection. Double-click the mouse in the step of drawing the selection to close the selection and end the new operation.

4. Adjust the brightness and tone of the background. Click "Curve" in "New Fill or Adjust Layer", and select the green channel in the curve dialog box to adjust the shade and tone.

Use the curve tool to adjust the setting of the red channel.

Note: The adjustment of light and shade in this step is related to the final completion effect. The brightness of the background should be coordinated with the brightness of people as much as possible to avoid excessive contrast.

5. Run the "Color Balance" command in "Create a new fill or adjustment layer" to perform accurate color adjustment on the background. In the Color Balance dialog box, you can handle shadows, midtones and highlights separately. Next, adjust the color of the highlights in the background.

Use the Color Balance command to adjust the hue of the highlighted area.

6. Just to achieve the soft and hazy effect of oil painting, I want to blur the background properly. First copy the background layer (Ctrl+J), and then blur the copied layer. Run the Gaussian blur command and set the radius setting of the blur.

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Set the radius of Gaussian blur to 8 pixels.

7. Load the role selection. Step 1: Hold down the Ctrl key and click the Layer 1 layer, then release the key and click the Background Layer with the mouse to run the Ctrl+Shift+I command to get the character selection area.

8. Adjust people's skin color. First, use the Curve command to adjust the contrast between light and shade. Then adjust the color of the person who uses the "color balance" command to make it harmonious and unified with the overall picture.

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Adjust the contrast between light and dark by curve command.