Backdrop colour shift

Fancy a change of scenery? Read on to find out how you can add a subtle tint to a seamless portrait backdrop using Adobe Photoshop…

SEAMLESS PAPER BACKGROUNDS don’t come cheap, and are cumbersome too, so keeping a stock of different hues to change them mid-shoot isn’t practical. Thankfully, with a little Photoshop trickery you can conduct subtle colour shifts, allowing you to create shoots with more variety, by warming up or cooling down the ‘feel of a shoot, or to tweak the aesthetic of your backdrop to suit your subject. Often adding a hint of colour to a background can completely change the ‘feel’ of an image. The most pleasing shifts in hue often occur when you warm up or cool down a backdrop by subtly shifting it towards yellow or blue, respectively. That’s not to say more adventurous and exaggerated adjustments will not work – experiment with it; the changes are nondestructive and…

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