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Fashion Toning Using Photoshop's Color Lookup Adjustment
Layer
You see color toning and film-look effects just about everywhere you look these days in
fashionphotography,andyoucanrecreate thislookusingPhotoshop'sbuilt-in ColorLook-
up tables (they instantly remap the colors in your image to create some pretty cool color
effects, inspired by the lookup tables used in movie making and video). There aren't a lot
of controls to play around with—most of these are pretty much “one-trick ponies,” where
you choose a look and you either like the effect or not—but what's nice is it's available as
an adjustment layer, so you can control the amount of toning (or just tone the background
using the built-in layer mask).
Step One:
Open the photo you want to apply a Color Lookup effect to. Then, go to the Layers panel,
click on the Create New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the panel, and choose
Co-
lor Lookup
from the pop-up menu (as shown here), or you can click on the last icon in the
second row of the Adjustments panel. This opens the Color Lookup options in the Proper-
ties panel (shown here). There are three different sets of effects, and you make your choice
from any of the three pop-up menus (you can only apply one at a time, but you can add
multiple adjustment layers if you really feel you need to stack two).
