Photoshop Effect

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January 15, 2025
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This is an image I pulled off one of my online classes, the black and white photo is a reference. How would one use Photoshop to create such an effect? I am guessing its a filter, but cannot figure out how to recreate the effect.

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LAMY2017

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My first impression was that the 4 monochrome images were somehow combined. It looks like the image to which you refer was created via a filter(s) or some other Ps effect(s) used on a colored version. Perhaps Cutout, Posterize, or a combination.

Larry

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breGAuthor

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I can surley overlay the diffrent edits to create one image, but where does the coloring come in? Im confused

davescm

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If you can split the image into a series of limited tones, using posterise or similar, then you could add a gradient map to add colour. The gradient map uses the grey tone values in an image and maps them onto a coloured gradient (with as many points as you choose to add). You may also need a curve between the posterise adjustment and gradient map adjustment .

Add all these the adjustments as adjustment layers, that way you can make changes to them until you get the effect you need, nothing is permanent.

Dave

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