Summer Fashion Portrait

Skill Level: Beginner

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to give a great summery effect to your outdoor photo’s by using a few adjustment layers in Photoshop.

First you’ll need a suitable outdoors portrait, preferably in a field or meadow.

The photo I’ve used in this tutorial was downloaded here from deviantArt member ‘niniel-stocks’.

With your photo open in Photoshop, click on the adjustment layer button at the bottom of your layers panel, and choose Hue/Saturation from the list.

Set the Saturation to +25, and the Lightness to +10.

This will have given your photo a lighter and brighter appearance.

Next create another adjustment layer, this time Solid Color.

Use a pale yellow colour like the one above.

Set the layer’s blending mode to Multiply, it’s Opacity to 80%, and it’s Fill to 80%.

Then create another Solid Color adjustment layer, this time using a pale purple colour.

Set the blending mode to Lighten, the Opacity to 50%, and the Fill to 50%.

And then another Solid Color layer, this time using a pale blue.

Set it to Color Dodge, and set the Opacity to 50%, and fill to 50%.

Finally we will add some more light by creating a Gradient adjustment layer.

Set the gradient from white to transparent, and adjust the angle in a way that suits your photo.

Set the blending mode to Soft Light, and the Opacity to 80%.

Your layers panel should end up looking like the image above.

And here’s the final outcome.

Below are some more examples using exactly the same settings.

Try it now.

Thanks for reading!

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