{"id":39,"date":"2008-07-22T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2009-01-30T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T21:38:41","slug":"retro-up-your-images-in-2-minutes-with-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/retro-up-your-images-in-2-minutes-with-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Up Your Images in 2 Minutes With Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a very simple little trick that I figured out by accident.\u00a0 It is likely common knowledge, but I didn’t know about it and thought maybe there were more out there like me.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial I’m using Photoshop CS3 (I’m sure older versions will do the trick as well) and very little Photoshop knowledge is required as it’s ridiculously easy<\/em>.\u00a0 So load up Photoshop<\/strong> already and lets get started.<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/h4>\n

Open the your desired image in Photoshop.\u00a0 For our example we’re using a free stock image which can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Step 2<\/h4>\n

Right-click the image’s layer and select “Duplicate Layer”<\/strong> and name it “Black and White”.\u00a0 Now duplicate the layer again<\/strong>, but this time name it “Color”.\u00a0 You can now turn the original layer invisible by clicking the “eye icon” to the left (keep it around in case you need to start over).<\/p>\n

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Step 3<\/h4>\n

Select the layer “Colors” and change the Opacity to 55%<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can tweak it later if need-be.<\/p>\n

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Step 4<\/h4>\n

Select the “Black and White” layer and from the top menu select Image > Adjustments > Desaturate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Step 5<\/h4>\n

Select the “Black and White” layer and from the top menu select Image > Adjustments > Levels<\/strong>.\u00a0 Make sure “Preview”<\/strong> is ticked in the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n

Step 6<\/h4>\n

Under “Input Levels”, slide the far left and right sliders towards the center<\/strong>.\u00a0 You want the sliders to be close together, but not too close.\u00a0 For this example, I set the left slider to “78” and the right to “113”.\u00a0 You’ll probably want to play around with the levels until they are just right<\/em> and click “OK”.<\/p>\n

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That’s it!\u00a0 Ridiculously easy, right?\u00a0 You can change the opacity of the “Colors” layer if you’re the tinkering type, but you are essentially done.<\/p>\n

Now go forth trick out your [insert prevalant social network here]<\/strong> profile pics!<\/p>\n

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This is a very simple little trick that I figured out by accident.\u00a0 It is likely common knowledge, but I didn’t know about it and thought maybe there were more out there like me. In this tutorial I’m using Photoshop CS3 (I’m sure older versions will do the trick as well) and very little Photoshop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phOWv-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellmedicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}