Quick Tip from Full Tutorial:

Using Colour Balance Adjustment Layers for Quick Colour Grading.

A quick and easy way to get started on colour grading your image is to use a Colour Balance Adjustment Layer. This allows you to adjust the amount of cyan/red, magenta/green and yellow/blue in the Shadows, Midtones and Highlights.

Here you can see the effect of this simple procedure:

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In this Halloween inspired Photoshop tutorial, Caroline Julia Moore shows how she combines two model images and completely transforms them into this magnificent and creepy image! Caroline shows how effective dodge and burn can be and also how she uses one of her favorite LUT files to finish her color grading.

This tutorial contains both a written and video component.

What you’ll learn:

• How to blend and merge different images to create an eerie composition.
• Effectively employ dodge and burn to add an illustrated and surreal feel.
• Colour grading to create an eerie atmosphere.
• Painting in light.
• Selectively sharpening your image.

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