How to get this colors and effects

[Poet Anderson]

I REALY LOVE this kind of effect, I dont know what is it but those colors and whole atmosphere of these pictures and totaly amazing. I guess it's some kind of photo filter or maybe not. Please can anyone show me how to get this. I think it's not difficult, but even if it's difficult, please tell me. I'd really appreciate that.


http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...1397775782_229155915781_7384296_7351853_n.jpg

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...1769080782_229155915781_7163412_3303205_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...9749685782_229155915781_7368270_5175127_n.jpg

 

[stufflol]

I think its done with an optical flare but im not 100% sure

 

[Poet Anderson]

thanks, any other specific suggestions?

 

[siodre]

done with curves and solid layers of color set to different blending modes.

not sure if you can download this, but it's a psd file so you can see what i did. lighting in the original picture makes a big difference on the outcome.
View attachment Blind_42_by_sd_stock.psd

 

[Poet Anderson]

done with curves and solid layers of color set to different blending modes.

not sure if you can download this, but it's a psd file so you can see what i did. lighting in the original picture makes a big difference on the outcome.
View attachment 5945

Cool is there any tutorial, how to work with curves to get something like this?

 

[siodre]

sorry, i don't have any tutorials.. i just played around. basically use the drop down menu to get to the different colors. if you remember than cmyk is the opposite of rgb you'll be fine. so to add red or cyan move the curve up or down respectively in the red menu, same for green and magenta in the green channel and blue and yellow in the blue channel. i like setting at least one tone curve for tones. adjusting the colors then setting the blending mode to luminosity can give you some interesting effects with the tones without changing the colors. also try softlight, screen, etc.. most of the color work is done with solid layers set to different blending modes, but the tone curve differentiates the colors so you don't end up with a photo thats mostly yellow.

 

[Poet Anderson]

Ok then, thank you very much, I'll try it.

 

[siodre]

looked at the colors again on your examples, esp. the first, and had another go at it to get more of the yellow/pink color.


and here's the .psd cause that's easier than listing all the layers and describing what the curves look like.
View attachment Blind_42_by_sd_stock2.psd

 

[Poet Anderson]

Great, thanks again.