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Before we get started, lets compare the original with the result. As you’ll see we’re taking a great photo and making it really punchy by getting it really contrasty and changing the color palette
It’s a great shot from iStockPhoto of someone tearing up a wave. Even without any Photoshopping it’s already looking pretty good
Our first step is to up the contrast, you can do this by going to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. I’ve upped the contrast by 20 and upped the brightness to stop the photo from getting too dark
Next we duplicate the layer and press Shift-Ctrl-U to desaturate the copy to Black and White
Set the Black and White layer to Overlay and 60%. This gives us a nicely adjusted photo
Now with a large, soft brush, create a new layer and paint some black on the edges as shown. When you’re done, set that layer to Overlay and 50% or thereabouts
Now with this method, you should be adjusting to compensate for your specific image. In this photo of the surfer, there is some extra noise in the bottom left
Create a new layer on top, fill it with black, and set the blending mode to Color. Then we change the Opacity to just 30%, this effectively desaturates the image a little, but by adjusting opacity we can control this easily and without doing anything permanent
and thats the final result,thanks for coming to my site about photoshop tutorials
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