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Watch This Tutorial Showing How to Deconstruct the ‘Look’ of Any Photo Using Curves in Photoshop

March 17, 2014 By Eric Reagan

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WHvfVc_8eMc&w=640&h=360]

Do you see photos and wonder how they get that ‘look’ in their post processing work flow? The above video will show you how to evaluate a photo and match its look to your own using a series of curves adjustment laters in Photoshop.

You can see the effects in the screenshots below. The “source look” image is on the left and the “target” image is on the right. With just a handful of evaluation techniques using blend modes and curves, the target image closely matches the look of the image on the left.

Before Photoshop Curves Image Match

Before Photoshop Curves Image Match

After Photoshop Curves Image Match

After Photoshop Curves Image Match

This is a pretty impressive technique that I’m happy to add to my bag of tricks. I hope you guys enjoy it too.

[via PetaPixel]

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: curves, Learn, look, Photoshop, tip, trick, tutorial

 

Comments

  1. Tim L says

    March 17, 2014 at 4:47 pm

    That is a good one.

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