How to make my photos pop art
Notice that the opacity of the sky layer has been reduced to 49% so the effect is more subtle when laid over the top of the lower two layers. Layers panel showing the partially erased boosted blue sky layer As I mentioned earlier, you’re going to be boosting the blues in my sky so click on ‘mid-tones’ and then pull the blue slider up to about +42. Next, go to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance > and bring up the RGB sliders. The original layers are still intact underneath this new one. You can do this ‘none destructively’ by pressing ctrl+alt+shift+e which will now combine the two layers you have selected, and create a new layer from those. For this example you want to boost the blue sky so combine the two layers that you’ve been working on so that you can make changes to that.
I think that some of the colors need a little encouragement. Step 2 – Selectively Boost Colours and Brighten Usually I find that a setting of 28% works best in most cases. This percentage will be different for all of your images so use your judgement and don’t overdo it. It’s still a little too dark, so in the layers window reduce the opacity of the duplicated layer until it’s at about 58% (see screenshot above right). Next go to Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Highlights and drag the shadows slider all the way to right then hit OK (see screenshot below left).īy doing this, you’ll reduce the darker parts of the image ONLY in the duplicated layer. It’s also way too dark so we’ll fix that next. Right away you’ll notice that all of the colours are more striking and the contrast is extreme.