Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 14:58:49 GMT
It's Saturday and time for another new Creative Effects Challenge.
I thought the Bleach Bypass was a nice and easy one to try out this time around. Bleach Bypass is a look that has its roots in the old big Hollywood movies. Basically the reel missed out the bleaching process, therefore bypassing it, to retain more silver and boost the contrast while also muting the colours, and overall lifting the exposure of the film negatives.
Usually this works very well with portraits, but I have tried it on a not so traditional photo for this process.
Here is my starter photo, which I took of my best friend at her wedding last year.
Step 1
Open your photo and create a duplicate layer by clicking Ctrl+J on your keyboard. To drain the colour quickly from this new layer click Ctrl+Shift+U. Now let's change the Blending Mode from Normal to Overlay, which will boost the contrast.
Step 2
Hit D on your keyboard to set your foreground and background colours to black and white. Go to Filter - Filter Gallery, navigate to the Distort group, and click on Diffuse Glow. Here you can play around a bit with the values; I used 1 for Graininess, 6 on the Glow Amount, and 10 for the Clear Amount. Click ok once you are happy with your choices. To reduce the strength of this filter change the Opacity until you are happy with it; I used around 80% on mine as I really wanted to change the look of the original photo. In doing so, some of the details of the flowers got a little blown out, so I used the Eraser Tool at an opacity of 25% to bring those back.
Step 3
Finally, let's darken the edges a little. Again, depending on the type of photo you are using depends on how much of this you might wish to do. So, click the Elliptical Marquee tool and draw a selection from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of your photo. Inverse the Selection by clicking Ctrl+Shift+I and click on the Refine Edge button. Here, set the Feather value to around 50px and click OK. Now go to the Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers panel and choose Levels. Drag the middle slider, for the midtones, to around 0.7 to darken the corners of your photo, again, play around until you have something that works for you. I also then adjusted the opacity of this a little as I didn't want the edges too dark.
So, that's it, the Bleach Bypass effect. Have fun with it, take it further if you wish, and show us your creations!
I thought the Bleach Bypass was a nice and easy one to try out this time around. Bleach Bypass is a look that has its roots in the old big Hollywood movies. Basically the reel missed out the bleaching process, therefore bypassing it, to retain more silver and boost the contrast while also muting the colours, and overall lifting the exposure of the film negatives.
Usually this works very well with portraits, but I have tried it on a not so traditional photo for this process.
Here is my starter photo, which I took of my best friend at her wedding last year.
Step 1
Open your photo and create a duplicate layer by clicking Ctrl+J on your keyboard. To drain the colour quickly from this new layer click Ctrl+Shift+U. Now let's change the Blending Mode from Normal to Overlay, which will boost the contrast.
Step 2
Hit D on your keyboard to set your foreground and background colours to black and white. Go to Filter - Filter Gallery, navigate to the Distort group, and click on Diffuse Glow. Here you can play around a bit with the values; I used 1 for Graininess, 6 on the Glow Amount, and 10 for the Clear Amount. Click ok once you are happy with your choices. To reduce the strength of this filter change the Opacity until you are happy with it; I used around 80% on mine as I really wanted to change the look of the original photo. In doing so, some of the details of the flowers got a little blown out, so I used the Eraser Tool at an opacity of 25% to bring those back.
Step 3
Finally, let's darken the edges a little. Again, depending on the type of photo you are using depends on how much of this you might wish to do. So, click the Elliptical Marquee tool and draw a selection from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of your photo. Inverse the Selection by clicking Ctrl+Shift+I and click on the Refine Edge button. Here, set the Feather value to around 50px and click OK. Now go to the Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers panel and choose Levels. Drag the middle slider, for the midtones, to around 0.7 to darken the corners of your photo, again, play around until you have something that works for you. I also then adjusted the opacity of this a little as I didn't want the edges too dark.
So, that's it, the Bleach Bypass effect. Have fun with it, take it further if you wish, and show us your creations!
