First, here's the final product.
Prior to starting this workflow, I have to assume that necessary global color corrections have been done to your chosen image so that we can begin with a photo with a good exposure. It's a good idea to burn the shadows in PS so you can get good blacks.
Now, on for step 1. Here's our starting photo. I've done some burning to get nice shadows on this one. Nothing fancy, just a quick 10-second brushing around. On the right, our layers panel, you can ignore the adjustments I've made for now and we'll make them visible on the layers as we go through them.
Step 2. Quick cross-process. Add a curves adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves) and select the blue channel and adjust as shown below. It doesn't have to be exactly the same but try to get something so that you increase the overall brightness and getting in more blues.
Step 3. Decrease Contrast. Add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast) and decrease contrast to -10 or lower.
Step 4. Adjust Levels. This may sound counterproductive to Step 3 but just go with it since I noticed 'messing up' adjustments will degrade overall image quality which will be important in getting rid of that 'digital' feel of a photo. Anyway, same thing as step 2 and 3 but this time choose Levels and adjust the left and right controls to clip the blacks and highlights.
Step 5. Hue/Saturation. Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and er, adjust the reds and greens as shown on the next two screens below.
Step 6. Add a warming filter. Add an empty new layer and fill it with something close to the color shown below (on the layers panel). Select this layer and set the blend mode to Multiply and adjust the opacity so that your whites become close to light peach/flesh.
And that's it! A faded cross-processed image that has a cool tone but still warm to the feel. Now to make your workflow / investment work for other images, proceed to Step 7.
Step 7. Make Workflow Portable. With an initial investment of around 10-15 mins depending on how fast you can do the above steps, you can easily reuse your workflow by grouping the adjustment layers and dragging it to a new image. Now, you can do it over and over again in seconds.
As mentioned, just drag your grouped adjustments to a new image and you get an instant photoshop filter/action.
Prior to starting this workflow, I have to assume that necessary global color corrections have been done to your chosen image so that we can begin with a photo with a good exposure. It's a good idea to burn the shadows in PS so you can get good blacks.
Now, on for step 1. Here's our starting photo. I've done some burning to get nice shadows on this one. Nothing fancy, just a quick 10-second brushing around. On the right, our layers panel, you can ignore the adjustments I've made for now and we'll make them visible on the layers as we go through them.
Step 2. Quick cross-process. Add a curves adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves) and select the blue channel and adjust as shown below. It doesn't have to be exactly the same but try to get something so that you increase the overall brightness and getting in more blues.
Step 3. Decrease Contrast. Add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast) and decrease contrast to -10 or lower.
Step 4. Adjust Levels. This may sound counterproductive to Step 3 but just go with it since I noticed 'messing up' adjustments will degrade overall image quality which will be important in getting rid of that 'digital' feel of a photo. Anyway, same thing as step 2 and 3 but this time choose Levels and adjust the left and right controls to clip the blacks and highlights.
Step 5. Hue/Saturation. Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and er, adjust the reds and greens as shown on the next two screens below.
Step 6. Add a warming filter. Add an empty new layer and fill it with something close to the color shown below (on the layers panel). Select this layer and set the blend mode to Multiply and adjust the opacity so that your whites become close to light peach/flesh.
And that's it! A faded cross-processed image that has a cool tone but still warm to the feel. Now to make your workflow / investment work for other images, proceed to Step 7.
Step 7. Make Workflow Portable. With an initial investment of around 10-15 mins depending on how fast you can do the above steps, you can easily reuse your workflow by grouping the adjustment layers and dragging it to a new image. Now, you can do it over and over again in seconds.
As mentioned, just drag your grouped adjustments to a new image and you get an instant photoshop filter/action.
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