1. Open a photo of your choosing in photoshop.

I chose one of China Town in London, I want to try and bring out the red lanterns, while turning the rest of the photo to greyscale.

2. Along the top panel of photoshop, select ‘Filter’ > ‘Camera Raw Filter’

3. In the Camera Raw Filter, go to Colour Mixer / HSL

4. It will automatically be on ‘Hue’… change this to ‘Saturation’

Pick the colour you want to keep in the photo (I am choosing red). And keep that one set at 0 or more.

For all the other colours, slide the saturation down to -100

This is the result: (press ok)

5. Adjust the brightness and contract: Click ‘Image’ along the top panel, then go to > Adjustments > Brightness & Contrast

6. Now we will remove any colour left in places that we don’t want it…. So I am going to remove some of the red that we can see on the people in the image.

To do this I am going to:

• duplication the layer… Click ‘Layer’ on the top panel > Duplicate Later

You should now have…

7. Click ‘Image’ along the top bar, > ‘Adjustments’ > ‘Black and white” and turn the whole top layer to black and white.

8. Now select the eraser tool

And erase the parts of the grey layer that you want to go back to being red (This will reveal the layer below).

The result:

1. Download one of the images below or find your own.

2. Open the image in Photoshop: Right click on the download and select ‘Open With’… then choose ‘Photoshop’

3. Shift the Hue…

First, you’ll pick two colours and shift the rest of the colours towards those two colours. This technique simplifies the colours.

In Photoshop, go to Filter > Camera Raw Filter.

4. Go to colour mixer

5. Pick 2 colours from the list (preferably two colours that aren’t near to each other). I will picked ‘Aqua’ and ‘Magenta’. You keep the two colours you have picked at zero…. then you move the other colours as close as you can to the colours you picked.

For example… I will shift red as far as I can to the left as this is more of the pink end of the dial that is closest to magenta.

6. Now we need to adjust the shadows by clicking on the ‘Curve’ tab (still in the Camera Raw Filter settings).

7. To tint the shadows purple, I need to select the blue and red channels, and drag the bottom left point upwards.

8. Click ok when you are happy with the colours

9. Go to: Image, Adjustments: Brightness and Contrast

Adjust the brightness & contrast to your liking

10. Go to Image, Adjustments: Vibrance

Adjust the vibrance to your liking

The results (Before and After)

11. Try creating a series of surreal photos as a triptych (A group of three):