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Gritty High Contrast Effect Tutorial





The gritty high contrast effect is a popular effect used widely on printed media and recently it appears more and more in movies too. We will see how we can easily get this effect that will turn a regular image into a very bright and vibrant one.

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The last mode will bring up the color table, from it drop down menu, Choose black body. Using ctrl+a select everything in your image and then ctrl+c to copy everything. Then with F12 bring back the original image and straight after ctrl+v to paste the modified image you just created with the 3 steps mentioned above.

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Finally drag the Blend mode to Luminosity, if you want to touch it up add a little noise by Select -> Filte r-> Noise, 3% should be sufficient for a relatively small photo and that’s it!


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