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Last night I was feeling in the mood for a little Photoshop fun, so I decided to start digging through my archives to find something to create. I started with doing a few black and white conversions from a recent trip to the UP, but it wasn’t really coming together for me. Next I landed in a folder that had some infrared cemetery images from Detroit that I had taken last year.
Now some of these had already been processed, and were in my flip bins on last year’s art fair circuit, but some haven’t been touched at all. None of them have been processed using the color method. The majority of the infrared filters and conversions leave you with a photo that is heavily tinted red. The red comes from the filter that is used to cover the sensor or lens that keeps the visible light spectrum from reaching your sensor.
In Photoshop you can use this tint to your advantage. By using a technique commonly referred to as channel swapping you can introduce some interesting colors in your infrared photos. The most popular is the one I used here known as the red blue swap. In addition to swapping the channels I also created a layer that was a black and white version of the image. Next I use a layer mask to reveal the black white version of the monuments themselves. I used NIK Silver FX to do my black and white conversion. Next I used NIK Color Glamour Glow effect to get that nice dreamy glow/blur. Another mask is required to conceal the glow effect from the monuments. If you shoot infrared and are interested in the channel swap method a quick Google search will give you more information than you need including actions and YouTube videos.
In all, it was an enjoyable way to spend an hour.
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