Sunday 5 May 2013

Extreme Contrast Portrait Tutorial

A different way for a super extreme contrast portrait.
Here's how i did it:

1. Chose your photo.

2. Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool

3. Draw a path around the skin areas

4. Head to the top of the page & click on the Select Header & then on "Color Range". 

5. Click in the skin area on photo (left hand side photo here).

6. Change picker tool to the one with the + sign & continue to click on the skin until you reach this effect. press OK

7. Click on the Select header again & click on Save Selection

 8. Call this layer "Skin". Press OK.

9. Deselect skin
(Command D)

10.Click on the Channels section.

11. Delete channels RGB, Red, Green, Blue.

*Note: To save out as a Jpeg you will need to copy & paste the image onto a new page & flatten. Save As Jpeg.

**Other options for funky portraits.**
If you want to try some other options for extreme portraits you can try deleting channels & leaving the combinations below:

Blue/Green

Red/Blue

Red/Green

Or just leave one:

Red

Green

Blue