How do I acheive this kind of cross process

byteyou · Jul 12, 2011

Hi, can anyone please give me advise on how to achieve this kind of color tone?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byteyou/5929398650/in/photostream

Thanks in advance!
Photo is from Simplicity Photography » Blog

480sparky · Jul 12, 2011

My guess is it's just a matter of adjusting the white balance in-camera.

BTW, it's against forum rules to post images that aren't yours.

byteyou · Jul 12, 2011

ok I removed the picture already, I think its more than just white balance right? it seems to be more than that, I tried playing with curve alot of times but cant seem to achieve that kind of color tone. Any advices please?

joealcantar · Jul 12, 2011

Post one of your own images and let folks adjust and see if they can come up with something.
Kind of has to be that kind of shot, sunny day shoot for the most part.
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Shoot well, Joe

yoman · Jul 12, 2011

well i would guess that you can get that tone by adjusting the brightness and contrast from RGB of the photo, with a little patience in editing i believe you can get that tone

oldmacman · Jul 12, 2011

First, I am not a fan of this type of processing, but I just did a quick test: a reduction in contrast combined with a yellow overlay achieves this effect quite well. I blended the layer using Soft Light blend.

PhotoWrangler · Jul 12, 2011

Asking how to achieve this cross process, is like asking people how they like their eggs. Everyone has a different way of achieving the desired effect, but in the end, it's all still eggs.

Peano · Jul 12, 2011

Curves adjustments approximately like these will get you most of the way there. Pulling the blue curve
down adds yellow to the highlights. Pulling down the green adds magenta. The combination of yellow and
magenta will produce the peach color you see in the example you linked to.

byteyou · Aug 18, 2011

hey thanks everyone for your tips and tricks!

byteyou · Aug 18, 2011

oldmacman said:
First, I am not a fan of this type of processing, but I just did a quick test: a reduction in contrast combined with a yellow overlay achieves this effect quite well. I blended the layer using Soft Light blend.

Hi, I think its not just contrast and the yellowish tint. It has a bit of red as well but I cant seem to get that effect

dsquared · Aug 18, 2011

Well,it seems that it's adjusting colors and deleting parts which don't look good. Try out this:

First,go with duplicating original layer,then use High Pass radius 5 @ soft light and adjust opacity as you like it.
Then,go new layer, paint that in yellow gradient or something like that and put it on overlay(it will burn your image,but delete parts that don't look good) and keep it on minimal opacity.
Ok,then you can use a lot of photo filters,again duplicating layers and deleting parts you don't like,and don't over-process it so it lose the sence of the image.
Finaly,use filter>sharpen>sharpen,you can use it on soft light or something and adjsut the opacity,and then again sharpen it till it looks good for you...

Hope it helped...