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Adding a split AFTER
colour tone

I PARTICULARLY liked Gary Telford’s shot of a
trio of punks sitting on a bench drinking cans of
lager. It is as if time has stood still the past 40
years for these guys, even though the ageing
process clearly hasn’t. It is a great documentary
photograph and my aim was to stay true to
the original. To strengthen the composition, I
cropped out the distracting elements on the left
and right of the frame and opted for a square
crop, making full use of the empty space of the
brick wall backdrop. This photograph would
have worked really well as a black & white
image. However, I chose to keep it in colour and
used the Split Toning panel to add a green/blue
colour wash, which muted the colours slightly.

BEFORE

1 Apply Basic 2 Add localised 3 Add a Split
panel adjustment adjustments Toning colour eff ect
In the Basic panel I applied a lightening Exposure I then selected the Radial Filter tool and added In this step I first went to the HSL panel and selected the
adjustment combined with an added Contrast and a negative Exposure adjustment that darkened the Saturation tab. I then selected the Target Adjustment
lightening Shadows adjustment. In the Presence outer areas and adjusted the Radial Filter Feather tool and dragged upwards on the brick wall to boost
section I added more Clarity and boosted the Vibrance. slider to soften the boundary edge. I also selected the saturation of the red and orange colours. Finally,
I then selected the Crop tool to crop out the bench on the Graduated Filter tool and added a darkening I went to the Split Toning panel, where I added a green
the left and the rubbish bin on the right. adjustment to the bottom-right corner. tint to the highlights and a blue tint to the shadows.

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Martin Evening is a noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. He is well known in London for his fashion and beauty work, for which he has won several awards. Martin has worked
with the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom engineering teams over many years and is one of the founding members of a software design company. Visit www.martinevening.com

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