B&W Photo > Becomes Anime Image Example of using Photoshop layers, hue/saturation, duotone, brightness/contrast and then levels, stamp tool, fills and masks to create and change colour photograph into an anime-style image. Image is purposely underexposed to make it easier to work with pinpointing "dark tones" and then lightening the entire image prior to adding colour	becoming sanzo
Using 3-Point LIghting to Contrast Bkground Example uses 3-point lighting and extra foreground lighting to bump-up the focus on the character, and then mute the background. Colour photo is then pulled into Pshop, and converted to Greyscale, then Duotone using Pantene 107 CVC (a yellow) and Pantene 2716 CVC (a blue), in order to further mute-down the background and bring up the front lights.	3-point lighting View Full Image
CG: Using Channels, Layers & Masks/Modes Example of using levels and masks on a colour photo, then using Desaturate, and Channels to break-out high and low tones. This is a colour photo with background which used 3-point lighting and yellow gels to punch up the foreground prior to any Photoshop manipulation Photo then imported into Photoshop and cropped down. Channels and layers are used to split out high and low tones.  Once broken out, adjust levels to  bring down the background (this picture was taken with a background has ot be masked out). Convert to Duo-tone, use the selection tool with the mask to remove and wierd hi-end tones. Use a transition layer to initially set BG colour to desired and adjust levels to ensure foreground stays "forward." Adjust brightness/contrast on the foreground, then convert to RCG and then to B&W. Set BG colour to desired and bump-up hue as needed. Add watermark w/ Gaussian Blur monotone filter.	View Full Image
Lites, Crops & Character Placement This image uses cropping and character, camera placement to add interest to the image.   Photoshop was used on a B&W photo. Using Layers to convert B&W to Colour only to make minor level adjustments and to check colour settings.   Lights were placed to the left, directly above in front, directly under the camera and to the right below the camera angle to add contrast and punch up the character while dulling the background.	View Full Image