Editing: this color and contrast

[alezayas]

<p>Hi nice people! I was wondering if anybody could help me achieve this kind of editing and explain it to me a little. The result are really striking colors and a load amount of contrast. The photographer is a young north-american called Rockie Nolan (www.flickr.com/fadedfilmstrips)</p>

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<p>I would really appreciate it and I do believe for a lot of people it will be a great 'trick' to add to their repertoire</p>

<p>Thank you very much and *excuse my poor english, I'm from Argentina!<br>

Ale :)</p>

 

[igord]

<p>Looks like RGB values of skin are equal and shadows are bit bluish, that is all.</p>

[alezayas]

<p>I think there's more to it, but I think you're in the right path.. maybe somebody can give us something more. </p>

[Norma Desmond]

<p>If you use Photoshop, a good beginning is to play around with SELECTIVE COLOR and COLOR BALANCE. Tilt the color balance toward cyan, especially in the highlights. And take magenta out of the reds in selective color. You can effect the contrast with a slight curves adjustment.</p>

[alezayas]

<p>Will try that! Thanks! Any more data to add?</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>If you use any of a number of plug-ins or stand-alone programs (like Nik Color Efex Pro) and use one of their canned Cross Processing filters, you're a couple of mouse clicks from approaching this look. Something like an E6 -> C41 cross processing emulator will shift thing right into that neighborhood. Then it's bit of masked tweeking to the red-area chroma.</p>

[alezayas]

<p>Never tried them... I'll google it, THANKS!</p>

[igord]

<p>You can also try Neon Glow filter in Photo Shop. Just make background copy layer, apply Neon Glow filter with blue color, decrease opacity of the background copy layer to around 15%.</p>

 

[photom]

<p>It looks a little like scanned negative film to me with and he let the colors come out however they come out. Color negative film can give similar looks sometimes. Does the photographer provide any information about the type of camera she uses?</p>