Photoshop Instructions » High Contrast http://www.photoshopinstructions.com Free Photoshop Tutorials and Instructions. Download plugins, read our free tutorials and play with our online editor! Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Gritty High Contrast Effect Tutorial http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/gritty-high-contrast-effect-tutorial/ http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/gritty-high-contrast-effect-tutorial/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:03:03 +0000 admin http://www.photoshopinstructions.com/?p=479 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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