Hey Everyone! Kelsey here and
welcome back to Gal.
Today I'm going to show you
how easy it is to create
a really fast dual
lighting effect on photos
that are normally just standard lighting,
but then they can have a 2 tone
lighting effect inside a Photoshop and
this just takes a couple of minutes,
but I'm going to be showing you
two different examples in this video.
One of the swimmer,
which already has a black background
in the other one with a person
with a white background
and the reason why I'm showing you two
different photos
is because with this effect
it's better to use
a black and white photo
with a black background,
but if you don't have
a black background, I'm
going to show you how you can easily
cut out your subject
and then place a black
background behind it
as well as how to turn your photo
into a black and white image.
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Without further ado, let's
go ahead and jump on.
In first we will start
with the portrait of the swimmer here.
So first look at the image
an you can see.
Where the light is coming from
so you can see on the left
there's some light
and this is where I want to paint.
Kind of a cyan blue color.
And then there's some light
coming on the right
just behind his shoulder.
And this is where I want to
paint the red color.
So first let's make it black and white
by going down to click on an
adjustment layer an let's select
black and white.
And now that it's black
and white, let's add some more contrast.
To do that, we're going to create
a curves adjustment layer,
then use this little black triangle here
to move it over to the right.
To add some more darkness to the shadows
and then use the white triangle
and move it to the left
to increase the brightness
and now you can turn off the visibility
of this curves layer
to see the result of the contrast.
Now the curves are completely optional
depending on the photo
that you're working with.
I just wanted to add
a little bit more contrast
to this particular photo.
So now we need to select a new layer
icon to create a brand new layer.
In this is the layer
that we're going to paint our first color
on, so you can choose
any two colors that you want.
Yellow and purple would be cool too.
You can choose two complementary colors
that look really nice for your scene.
Orange and blue.
That's the compliment of orange,
orange and blue.
So look at your color wheel
and you can find
your complementary colors.
Their opposite of each other
in a color wheel,
which is pretty cool so.
Once you have your colors in mind,
what I'm going to do
is select my first color
and I'm going to choose my cyan color.
So now you're going
to select the brush tool,
which is this little paintbrush tool
and you're going to right
click on the canvas
and you can adjust the brush size.
You want this size to be fairly large,
because we're going
to reduce the hardness so that way
there's more soft edges to the brush.
So what I'm going to do
is just click and drag to create
my first color strokes on the left side.
Just by painting over the area
where the light is naturally coming from.
So now we just have
this blocky paint area
on top of the image
and now we need to go to the blend modes
and we're going to change this to color.
And now it nicely blends
in with our skin,
so the color mode is really cool
because it allows you
to place a color on top of your image
and it doesn't affect
the brightness of the image,
so only the color is on the guy's
chest in the face.
Only in the reason
why it's not affecting the background
because it's black
and there needs to be
light there for the color
to appear, because
it's completely black, you don't see
any of the color in the background,
and if you need to, you can of course
click over this area.
And paint a little bit more
if you want to add some more blue
on his chest per say.
So now that that's done, let's
go ahead and make another layer
for our red color.
So press the new layer icon
and we can name this red
and then click on the color
selection to change the color to red.
And now we're going to go back
to the brush tool in paint slowly
over the right side of the image,
and once again you're
going to go to the blend mode
and change it to the colorblind mode,
and I'm going to also paint a little bit
more on the right side on his face
just to make that.
A little bit more bright.
You can always undo any strokes
that you do by pressing command
plus Z on your keyboard
on a Mac, or control
plus Z on a PC to undo any of the strokes
and then redo them.
One more thing you can do is adjust
the fill intensity of this color
so you can select the layer in go to fill
an use the slider to adjust
the percentage strength
so you can adjust the percentage
of the fill to both layers if you want it
just a little bit less intense
than the full 100%.
To see it before
and after of how it looked
before, we added the color.
What you can do is select
the first affects layer that we created
and press shift to select the last one
and then you can select the folder icon
to put all these effects in a folder
and I'll just call this 2 tone
and now we can just turn off
the visibility of this folder
and it will turn off all the effects
so you can see the before
and then you can turn it back on
to see the after.
So now let's go onto the next photo
where the background
is not completely black.
So just like before,
we're going to create a new layer
and paint our first color
red on the right side.
Then we're going to change
the blend mode to color.
You can also see that
the color bleeds into the background
because it's not completely black.
You may actually like the color
bleeding into the background,
and that's completely fine,
but if you don't want it
bleeding in the background,
I'm going to show you
how to remove the background
and replace it with black
in just a moment.
And now I'm going to create another layer
and we're going to select our cyan color
and paint on the left side
just like before.
And once the painting is done,
we're going to go to change
the blend mode to color.
So you might like how this looks.
It looks really cool with the color
bleeding in the background in my opinion,
but if you want the kind
of black background look, let's
separate our subject from the background
so we can remove the background
and replace it with black.
So to do this we first
should turn off our color
layer visibility
and then select our image layer.
Then you can go up to quick actions
and you can simply click
on the remove background.
Icon here, but I think selecting
the subject is actually better
than just removing the background
because I'm able to add some more fine
tune selection before
I remove the background.
So once it's selected
you can then zoom in to your image
an use the hand tool by pressing H
on your keyboard to inspect the edges
and you can use the quick selection
tool to select more parts or remove
unwanted parts of the
selection by pressing
alt or option key on a Mac.
When you Click to remove parts
of the selection,
if you're dealing with an image
where somebody has a lot of wispy hairs
and more complex hairs,
I've actually made a full tutorial on
how to carefully remove the background
and cut out here accurately,
so I'll put a card up here to that video
if you want to watch how
to do more complex selections.
So once the selection is done,
go up to select modify
and feather and I'm going to add
just a slight feather
you can play around
with this, but around.
Four or five work just fine.
And then after that's done,
you're going to press command
J on a Mac or control J on a
PC to make the selection its own layer,
and then we can turn
off the background layer
and we can now create a new layer
and this is going to be
our background layer and let's move
this underneath our selected foreground
and then we can apply
a solid layer effect to this layer
and let's fill it in black
and we can zoom in to see if any.
I just need to be cleaned up.
You can go to the eraser tool
and right Click to make sure
the hardness is low
and you can carefully groom
and smooth over any of those rough edges
just by using the eraser tool
and then you can press
command plus zero or control
plus zero to bring it back fully in frame
and then you can
turn the color layers back on
because now the background is pure black
and no color is bleeding
in the background.
So now you have your final effect.
So here we use two
different photos, right?
And I showed you how easy it is
just to use the brush tool
and change the color blend mode
to color to easily create this effect.
Of course you know
you might want to
change the fill intensity a little bit,
but the same thing can be applied
to almost any portrait photo
that you want to create.
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