Its summer, and I need something special for summer for this site right? So... I've decided to make you a tutorial and since the photo retouch tutorial was a big smash I decided to do it on a photo effect! Now I keep seeing all these yellow tinged summer "themed" photos, yet I've never find out how they make there is! So after awhile tinkering in photoshop I found out how, and this is what I got:
Looks pretty good, at the bottom are some more examples!
Lets begin. First find a picture you want to edit ( or use the stock I have found ), there are some restrictions to this though, and they are as followed;
-Must be outside ( being a summer theme this helps )
-Tree/plant backgrounds work best ( better for the effect )
-Bright day/exposed.
After following those guild lines and finding/taking a picture you want to edit we can actually begin to start! Open up photoshop, as always I will be using cs4. The first thing we will tackle is exposure. You'll want to go ahead and open that, it can be located at the bottom of the layer menu, like so:
Now adjust everything how I have it below:
Here comes the annoying part of it all. You will need to make a new adjustment layer, like you did for the exposure, accept instead of clicking on exposure click on selective color. Its going to bring you to this screen.
Go threw all the drop down options and under the Yellow change it all to 100%. It will give you something that looks horrid! But don't worry we will fix that! You're going to need to change the layer blending mode to "Hue", you can find that like so:
Yet another adjustment layer! this time you'll need to select Brightness/Contrast. Change you setting to the following:
one last step, we need to add a "light source" from the bottom of this, you're going to need to select your gradient tool ( its with the paint bucket tool ) and change the gradient setting as follows:
create a new layer and click and drag, making sure the dark half is at the top, change the blending mode to Screen and you're done!
If the effect is to strong, select all the layers you have added and group them ( ctrl+g ) and change opacity down to a suitable strength. I turned mine to 75%. Final effect.
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