Cross Processing was traditionally used by photographers who used the chemicals designed for print film to process slide film. The result of this is a shift in the colour hue, blues become a more greenish colour etc. This technique can be utilised in Photoshop to help your shots stand out and give them a more distinctive look about them…..
Create a ‘Curves Adjustment Layer’ by selecting ‘Layer’, ‘New Adjustment Layer’ and then ‘Curves…’. Give the new layer a name (I named it ‘Curves’ for obvious reasons!).
You will notice the following ‘Curves Command’ window is now available to enable you to begin your adjustments….
Click in the middle of the current ‘linear curve’, this will create your ‘Midtone Control Point’ to start the editing.
Now, the first thing we are going to do is to darken the shadows a bit. To do this click on the ‘linear curve’ between the bottom of the line and the midpoint (the first position you clicked).
Drag this point to the right slightly until you are happy with th results and the shadows are darkened to your liking.
Now we are going to work on the highlights within the photo. To do this click on the linear curve half way between the top of the line and the midpoint (the first click position in the middle of the line).
Drag the new point over to the left slightly and you will notice the highlights of the photo start to become more prominent, when you are happy with the image stop moving the point.
The above steps can be repeated but you can then set the ‘Channel’ of the new adjustment layer to either ‘Red’, ‘Blue’ or ‘Green’ and work on these colours independently. Have a play with these layers and see what results you achieve.
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