(Original Image. Right image has been equalized to 50 luminosity and max saturation to make changes more apparent)



I should have been clipping my whites and blacks with curves set to Luminosity (or through LAB, which will have a similar effect but will look a bit different) instead of normal, and here’s why I think so:

These two images are split between a curves adjustment layer clipping the whites and blacks by 50 (see above picture), but one half is set to luminosity instead of normal. Notice how the shadows on the left are grey and the highlights are off-white. Now look at the right. The shadows are green, like in the original image, but still a constant luminosity. The highlights are also slightly coloured which is especially nice because you get a creamy faux-analogue highend.

Unlike RGB images, film doesn’t blow colours up to white / grey, at least not easily, so setting curves to only affect luminosity is ideal. And if you like the grey / relatively blue in appearance shadows you can always split tone it or add another normal curves to it.



It’s terrible that there’s no way to do this within Camera RAW, or at least Camera RAW 7.0.

