The following tutorial will teach you how to create a infra red colour action effect on using your photoshop.

For the purposes of this tutorial we will use a colour rich picture, a flower in this example. Load your image on photoshop and on the layers dialogue box got to the filter adjustment icon and select the invert adjustment option. This will invert flip the colours on your picture to the negative.

Then we will duplicate the same layer by clicking on the new layer and dragging and dropping on the layers dialogue panel. Now we are going to change the blending mode, always on the layers panel, through the drop down menu, on the second inverted copy to luminosity. This action will give you the effect of colour infrared film.

We will apply the same effect on another picture to better display the colour infrared type of effect.

Tip: How to create an Action macro on photoshop!
Its handy if you are using this effect often to create an action out of it following the steps:

1. Open up your actions palette
2. Click on the new action palette and name it
3. Click record and repeat once more the steps mentioned above to create the IR Filter effect.
4. Add an invert
5. Duplicate it
6. Change the invert’s blending mode in luminosity using the top drop down menu.
7. Stop the recording action.

Your Action is ready!

When you will want to apply it, just open a photo, click on your actions tab, select the action you just created and click Play! The action is performed in a macro-like fashion.

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