Ways of blending 80s image colors in Photoshop

Color blending techniques in Photoshop, or simply changing colors, change image tones to be an essential technique and important for those who regularly edit images. Changing the color you will bring better effects to the image, serving your purpose such as turning the image slightly towards the 80s.

For Photoshop color blending, you can use two different tools, Photo Filter and Gradient. The operations of these two tools are different, but they all produce artistic images. The following article will guide you in a way to change colors to produce 80s-style images.

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Guide to blending photos in Photoshop

Step 1:

We open the image to be colorized in Photoshop and press Ctrl + J , or drag and drop the Background Layer into the Create a new layer icon below to duplicate the Layer.

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Step 2:

Click on the duplicated image, then press Ctrl + A to create a selection for the image. Then click on the Channels section as shown below.

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Display the list of channels, press the Blue channel .

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The image is then colored as shown below.

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Step 3:

Next we press Ctrl + I to reverse the light and dark areas of the Blue channel as shown below.

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Step 4:

Click again on the Layers channel and select Overlay in Normal section, continue to adjust the Fill and Opacity of the effect.

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Step 5:

Next, click on the Create a new fill or adjustment layer icon and select Hue / Saturation .

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Display the Properties interface to adjust the color for the image. In the Hue color bar and the Saturation color bar we adjust the color to the appropriate level to change the color tone for the image. Depending on the color image, adjust the color accordingly.

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The results are 2 different images as below.

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Basically steps to blend blend colors of old 80s gold photos in Photoshop as above. The color adjustment part depends on the original image color that we adjust accordingly.

I wish you all success!