Playing with an idea

I've been tinkering with this idea for getting sort of a muted color effect that's sorta neat. It also looks pretty good on portraits. Here's what I did. LARGE

 

1. having the layers and channels pallet side by side (for ease of use) first command/ctrl + click on the RGB layers in the channels pallet.

2. Add a new blank layer. Hit "d" on the keyboard to get DEFAULT COLORS and then hit command/ctrl + delete/backspace (mac/windows).

3. Put that layer in "Screen" blending mode and on the keyboard do command/ctrl + d to deselect (Select > deselect).

4. Hide Layer 1 by clicking on the little eye in the layers pallet to the left of that layer's icon.

5. Click on the background layer and invert it...... command/ctrl + i

6. command/ctrl + click on the RGB layer in the Channels pallet.

7. Deselect.... command/ctrl + d

8. Invert the background layer back to positive (command/ctrl + i )

9. Click on Layer 1 and then CLICK ON THE ADD NEW LAYER BUTTON in the Layer's Pallet.

10. Reselect your last selection..... command/ctrl + shift + d

11. OK fill that layer with the foreground color, which should be black, ..... option/alt + delete/backspace

12. Put that layer in "Multiply" blending mode (using the Layers Pallet menu) and deselect (command/ctrl + d)

13. Add a hue/saturation adjustment layer and put saturation at +25 (to the right using saturation slider).

 

If you light this effect you can easily make and action of this by adding a new action before you do these steps and then clicking to close action in the actions pallet after you're done.

Done