Dramatic Effect in Photoshop Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Dramatic Effect in Photoshop Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.

This effect creates a rather dramatic effect - depending on the colours of the image and the actual photograph/image it depends what happens. However this effect is brilliant for improving your knowledge of Photoshop and learning new effects to use on all sorts of images.

Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, and discover new things in Photoshop.

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Dramatic Effect Tutorial - The Steps

Go into Photoshop and go into -> LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> COLOR BALANCE.. When the box comes up you’ll notice at the bottom there’s three options - Shadows, Midtones and Highlights. You’ll need to change all three of them, so take a look at the screen shots and make your settings look like mine, Midtone settings here, Shadows settings here, Highlights settings here. Once that’s done, Click OK.

Now go into the toolbar at the top in Photoshop and select LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST… a little box should come up asking you to name the layer (note this box might not come up & it might take you straight to the brightness/contrast settings), just click OK. Then set the brightness to +58, leave the contrast set to 0. Click OK.

Now download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.

First of all, go into Phtoshop and into the toolbar, select LAYER -> NEW FILL LAYER -> SOLID COLOR… when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Soft light” - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to F8FED0- then press OK

Not happy with what your photograph looks like? OK, firstly go into your Layers Palette and on the left side of each layer, you’ll see there should be little eyes. I’ve drawn a red box around the eyes to show you exactly what I mean - you’ll see that on one of the layers there’s no eye beside it, that’s because I’ve simply hidden the single layer to change the effect on my photograph. Click here to see what I mean. now that you understand that, you can hide one or more of the layers and keep playing with it until you like the outcome.

Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Dramatic Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.