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Image Manipulation: How does one go about adding a red effect (for lack of better words)  to a picture to make it look like the pictures below?

  • Are there any special camera settings that can do this or can it be done in photo editing softwares such as adobe photoshop? If so how? Thanks!

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    Redscale photographyThere is a film photographic technique where you expose the film "backward" and then in development it becomes red-shifted. This is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redscale. It is part of the "Lo-fi" movement in photography and these images seen to be attempting to do that. It is considered uncool to replicate a film technique through digital means, but clearly it is possible. Here is an entire group on Flickr for this film technique: http://www.flickr.com/groups/redscale/pool/with/3151604571/ All of these miss the yellow tones that are seen in true Redscale photography, although you might get close with LR two-tone. [Lomo's Redscale XR shot on an GR1 in New York City. by http://www.flickr.com/photos/docpopular/ on Flickr - licensed under Creative Commons] There are many ways to do this redshift digitally. You can use Lightroom's two-tone processes to set the colors to red. You can Colorize the image in Photoshop or other image manipulation programs. You can use Photoshop or other photo editor that has RGB saturation controls and desaturate everything but the red channel. Infrared photographyIt is also possible (but probably not really the case) that the sample photos were taken with a camera converted to shoot in Infrared light, with normal color blocked out. Without lots of processing, the images come out very reddish. Normally people just desaturate them in post production. [Infrared. by http://www.flickr.com/photos/sporkwrapper/ on Flickr - licensed under Creative Commons] Again, a whole Flickr group of infrared (some processed to B&W, others not): http://www.flickr.com/groups/artistic-infrared/ Playing around in PhotoshopAs I said earlier, you can just tone the photos in an image manipulation program. Looking at the quality of the photos you shared, I suspect that this is what was really done here. (Hard to say without the original source page to examine. Where are the photos from?)

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My gut instinct was to take the photo, remove all color to make it grayscale and then color it red but it turns out with a little experimentation that you must take the grayscale image and subtract the green and blue channels to achieve this effect. Using Irfanview on Windows, I opened a picture, hit Ctrl-G to make it grayscale. I then hit Shift-G to open the color corrections window and set the green and blue color balance sliders to -255.

Bill Shaw

Easily done in Photoshop, you can add an Hue/Saturation adjustment layer over the image layer by going to the Layers palette, and clicking on the middle icon at the bottom (it looks like a half-filled circle). Then select the "Colorize" check box then move the Saturation slider all the way to the right, and adjust the Brightness slider until the image looks good to you.

Steven Lee

1 - Add a layer above your photo and fill it with red. 2 - Set the layer blend mode to multiply. Done.

Mark Rosal

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