Children Portrait Photography | Retro Muted Colors
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Children Portrait Photography | Vintage Edition | Retro Muted Colors
Basically muted colors is fade color, less contrast. You can get this type of look in so many ways, among the easiest way is to drop the saturation in Photoshop. Bit for me it goes through a little bit of work, usually I will start with normal editing, then I will add another layer with the same picture or simply copy the layer below and turn the picture into black and white. You can either use black an white adjustment layer or simply convert it into greyscale or desaturate it under image adjustment.
Then what we can do is play with the opacity, just drop the opacity of the black and white picture so that you can see through your color picture below, it is easy to do this way since you can control easily how much color do you want to get through the black and white layer. This is just a starting point for me, not a finish product.
Later on I will play with color tone, add few grain or noise or add texture into the photograph. That’s why my muted color photograph look a little bit different, I just want to get that retro classic look. I don’t have standard workflow when it comes to editing my photograph, I just go with the “flow” and I will stop when I get the look that I want or I get the feel that I want.
My point here is that, it is good to know many ways of doing things so that you can express your artistic vision easily. There are many ways of doing black and white, many ways to boost the contrast and many ways to play with texture in Photoshop and it is really an advantage if we know how to do things in many ways since some way is better than the other, just like taking a picture, if we know how to handle our camera, know it’s function, know how camera works, know how ISO, Shutter and Aperture work together, then it is easier to get a picture that we want the way we want it to be.
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