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Title: Blue tint effect?
Post by: PaulieWalnuts on January 09, 2009, 00:02
Anybody know how this is done?
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: sharply_done on January 09, 2009, 01:02
Setting WB to Tungsten works if you're shooting outside.
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: Dreamframer on January 09, 2009, 03:58
Anybody know how this is done?

I don't get it. Do you want to avoid blue tint which is most often the case becuase it is unwanted effect due to incorrect white balance, or you want to make blue tint effect artificially?
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: RT on January 09, 2009, 04:44
I don't think the OP has explained his question that well, but apart from what Sharply has already said, if you mean where the photo would be a black & white albeit with a blue tint then that is done in Photoshop by just applying a Cooling Photo filter.

Like this:
(http://www2.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4784291/2/istockphoto_4784291-laptop-magnifying-glass.jpg)

Of course you can always do that to a colour image if you just wanted a more blueish looking image.
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: madelaide on January 09, 2009, 05:00
PSP has the "colorize" tool, which is what I use to create the kind of effect RT showed.  I find it can be even more interesting sometimes to apply it to a duplicate layer then increase transparency just a bit, to bring original color slightly.

Regards,
Adelaide
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: drop on January 09, 2009, 05:26
another possibility & other filters ;
http://www.optikvervelabs.com/download.asp
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: CofkoCof on January 09, 2009, 05:45
Adjustment layer, Hue/Saturation, Tick the Colorize option,Play with the sliders. Just make an action if you plan to use it more often.
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: PaulieWalnuts on January 09, 2009, 08:10
Hey thanks everybody. I probably should have been more clear but RT's example is what I'm talking about.
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: bittersweet on January 09, 2009, 08:59
Desaturate + Cooling Filter
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: madelaide on January 09, 2009, 09:39
Hey thanks everybody. I probably should have been more clear but RT's example is what I'm talking about.

That's "Colorize" in PSP, as I said.  Then you choose the hue and saturation you want.

Regards,
Adelaide
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: RT on January 09, 2009, 13:21
Hey thanks everybody. I probably should have been more clear but RT's example is what I'm talking about.

That's "Colorize" in PSP, as I said.  Then you choose the hue and saturation you want.

Regards,
Adelaide

Actually in the example it's a Cooling filter, but you could get a similar sort of result with Colorize, the difference is that by using a Cooling filter your whites and blacks get the blue tint, whereby using Colorize they don't because theres no colour in the first place.
Title: Re: Blue tint effect?
Post by: madelaide on January 09, 2009, 16:13
RT,

Thanks for the explanation, as from the sample image given I could not tell the difference.

Regards,
Adelaide