PHOTO EDITING TUTORIAL We all know that photography is a powerful art form that captures a moment in time and allows you to relive that over and over again. What we don’t all know all of the amazing ways to edit those original stills we capture, projecting them with a new light and giving them that added depth to make an already great photograph even more fantastic. Aesthetics Now are bringing to you some photography tutorials for you to try with your next shoot of pictures to enhance the visual appeal they have and give them that extra punch.
CROSS PROCESSING Very much a 1980’s 1990’s style, cross processing gives a photo a new temperature, adding extra contrast and light to elements of the picture in shadowy hues of blues, reds and greens. This photo style was used commonly in fashion and portrait shoots, adding a new dimension and depth in a unique and interesting style.
STEP 1: Choose a portrait or fashion photo for the best results.
STEP 2: Once you have chosen your image, click on the ‘Layers’ toolbar, drop down to ‘New Adjustment Layer’ and click ‘Curves’. A new layer window will pop up, click ‘OK’. Now in the curves window click the drop down box and choose the Red colour, and then add some points by clicking on the diagonal line and pull the points in different directions so that your curve forms a slight ‘S’. This will give the image a variety of different red hues depending on how far you pull the points.