Mood/Color effect

I'm tryin' to figure how to create dark/light mood and color effect that is similar to the movies, Saving the Private Ryan, Three Kings and Band of Brothers (HBO show). Any idea?? Appreciate help/suggestion in advance


Jace41

play with the levels and configure it to what you like.

Try playing with filters>render>lighting effects.

Do you mean the movies themselves or the promo posters?

The kind of effects you are looking for can be done with one or more otf the following techniques ...

1 Thie first technique is for a kind of subtle monochrome look - add a "channel mixer" adjustment layer - tick the monochrome checkbox - and fiddle with the channels until you have a really high quality greyscale version. Now you can reduce the opacity of this adjustment to let some of the original color show through subtly.

2 This technique is the Blur/Overlay technique, and variations of this are used on a great many movie posters. Try Guassian blurring a copy of the base image and setting the blend mode of the copy to Soft light or Hard Light. This will give a kind of soft focus effect. Change the opacity to taste and add a hue saturation adjustment layer to take the saturation down a little. add a layer mask too if you want to the "soft focus" layer and mask it in places. This will give a kind of atmospheric haze to the image, but a warning here - use this subtly, dont go overboard with it or you will have more if a "glamour" effect than you want!

3 Thirdly use a curves adjustment layer - this can be used to modify the colors verty subtly - as well as increasing/decreasing the contrast of the image.

4 The next technique is about adding a false " grain" to the image - in the case of the Private Ryan look. Add a layer filled with 50% grey and the blend mode set to Overlay or another mode (depending on how severe you want the grain) . Now use one of the 3 "grain" filters. Either Noise, Artistic/Film Grain or Texture/Grain. this will give a subtle texture to the image - there are other techniques for making the grain more apparent on certain areas either shadows or highlights, but I cant really go into them here, it would take too long.

There you go - some of the professional techniques in one easy-to -handle bite size chunk!

markzebra...





Beautiful!!!



Thanks to your tip, I got what I want. Appreciate it!





Jace41