[Fabien Berthelin]

After searching for hours and hours, I definitely find nothing more on how to get “glorious technicolor” lookalike photography in photoshop. But I almost think that there is not one proces. It’s only by experiment that you can get the result tah you want to have on your pictures. But to get close to it you have two solutions.

The first one is on passing image on CMYK , separate chanel, then ad color to them and recomposing the image. Because Technicolor used to be in CMY.

And the second solution, always on using channel, is to using channel mixer. Easier way but less exact than the first one. So here it is an exemple > https://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8311915

The technic is explained in the comments :

“The trick is very simple, open a channel mixer adjustment layer and set the channels as such, red channel= red+140 green-20 blue-20 , green channel= green+140 red-20 blue-20, blue channel= blue+140 red-20 green-20, then flatten image, copy background image, add gaussian blur, set layer mode to lighten and lower opacity to make the blur effect very subtle and that’s it.”

Then I still wander why there is no action script on this ? O_o

[Fabien Berthelin]

Hello !

I’m looking exactly for the same thing !

I tried a lot of things with mask and layer effects on photoshop to have a “technicolor effect” on photos. For now, I found that the best looking was to pass the image on CMYK, then separete chanels on different layers and recomposing them in RGB image with black layer. But it’s not realy that technicolor effect it looks like in “the aviator” film or example showed here (not even more in the “red shoes” or in “the Wizard of Oz”… but other things like light or make up, explain that kind of image).

The only example I found going the nearest of the technicolor effect is on that discution in flickr > https://www.flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/34913/
Arkku propose to do the same thing presented in the video for aviator. But I don’t know how he gets the “matte”. And it’s result. He didn’t use photoshop. Maybe the gimp ? But I can’t see how translate is formula into photoshop…

So I’m very interested for a solution… by the way,I don’t understand why it is so hard to get that effect and why there is nothing on it on the net ! O_o