HOWTO: Bleach Bypass

Fenster

This will work with most photos, although the most usable photos with little tweaking are bright, non-contrasty photos.

1. Open up a photo (always a must!), for this one I'm using the photo I've been working on:



2. Just for the sake of tidyness, create a new layer group (Layer-> New-> Group). It keeps everything in one place for later work.



3. Next, you need to create a black and white layer (Layer-> New Adjustment Layer). In PS3, I use a B&W adjustment layer with a blue filter. In PS2, the channel mixer in monchrome with 0/0/100 red, green and blue will produce an identical effect.



4. Right-click on the black and white layer, select layer properties and set it to "Soft Light." This gives main part of the look.





5. You can see now that the image is much darker and contrasted:



6. Next, create a Levels adjustment layer and use the following input settings: 31, 1.31 198:



7. Finally, create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and drop saturation by 50.



And voila, the final look:



It probably looks a little underwhelming here, but you can do things like paint in the eyes to brighten them using a mask, adjust opacity or setting of any of the layers - you have a huge amount of things you can play with and adjust.

Try it. :]

For the lazy of you I've created an two actions, one for PS2 and one for PS3

As an aside, here's the final image when I finished with it:


Probably the final photo

Fajitas!

I quite like the result from this...must go take some decent photos when I get better to give it a go on!

Fenster

Here's another photo I played with earlier, I had to do a fair bit of dodging to make the sign presentable:


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Hand_Of_Steel

That is an effect I've been tring to get for a while now.
Nice.

Wez

That's brilliant, been trying to acheive this affect for a while now, gonna grab some snaps to use for it..

GristlyEnd

Excellent tutorial. Thanks.