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Soundslikeaprettytypicaleverydaystory.Atleastthehumanguineapiginanexperiment-
al drug test part. Anyway, I looked at the movie poster, and the guys in the poster all have
this creepy-looking bluish/green color cast that makes them look kind of sickly, but then
the female lead's photo looks fine, with regular-looking flesh tones, and that's when I real-
ized why this guy thinks he's found the woman of his dreams. She doesn't have a creepy
bluish/greencolorcast. Imean, thinkaboutit.Ifall thegirlsaroundyouhadaseriouswhite
balance problem, and then all of sudden you meet a girl carrying around her own 18% gray
card, and so she looks correctly color balanced in any lighting situation, wouldn't you fall
in love with her, too? Exactly. I'll bet in the last 10 minutes of the movie, you find out that
this guy actually starts an online business for people using dating sites like eHarmony, or
Match.com, or HandsomeStalker.com, where he offers to remove bluish/green color casts
from your profile photo for a price. Things are going pretty well for him for a while, but
then in about the eighteenth minute, the experimental drug wears off, and he finds himself
trapped in a dank, dimly-lit room, forced to write nonsensical chapter intros late into the
night, until his wife comes in and says “Honey, come to bed,” but right then, he notices she
has a bluish/green color cast, and....
Desaturated Skin Look
This is just about the hottest Photoshop portrait technique out there right now, and you see
it popping upeverywhere, from covers ofmagazines to CD covers, from print ads to Holly-
wood movie posters, and from editorial images to billboards. It seems right now everybody
wants this effect (and you're about to be able to deliver it in roughly 60 seconds flat using
the simplified method shown here!).
Step One:
Open the photo you want to apply this trendy desaturated portrait effect to. Duplicate the
Background layer by pressing
Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J)
. Then duplicate this layer using
the same shortcut (so you have three layers in all, which all look the same, as shown here).
