Pulling off a duotone effect starts with lighting your portrait correctly. (We recently put out a monster of a blog post with all the various colors and hex codes you need to find neon retro-styled colors.) You should be left with your lasers in the background, perfectly fitted around the subject.ĭuotone is a very ’80s-inspired aesthetic - as long as the colors you’re using match the traditional look. Paint the shape, eliminating it over your subject. Now right-click on the Smart Layer and hit “Convert to Smart Object.” Once you’ve done this, add a Vector Mask by clicking the small button next to “Add a Layer Style.” Then move back over to the Paint Brush, make sure your opacity is at 100% and your foreground color is black. Then set the Blend Mode to Multiply and hit OK. Next, move over to Inner Glow and pick the color. These determine how wide and powerful the glow is. Once you’ve hit OK, you can play around with opacity, spread, size, etc. You can test out the most popular colors of the year, which happen to be neon. This will be whichever color you want for the glow effect around the shape. Hit the Layer Style icon, and choose Outer Glow. Then draw whatever shapes you want in the background. Click on the Pen tool, then set the mode to Shape, fill to None and stroke to White. For this example, I lit the subject with a green gel - that way the green lasers I added later would look like they were shining on her face. So to pull this effect off, make sure you have a blank background in your photo. A bland backdrop with some cheesy pink neon lights - because nothing is cooler than lasers. (I chose to go dark for this sample image.) Once you’ve done this, you can add a dark or light vignette. Then I lowered the contrast, increasing the highlights. Once I brought the image into Lightroom, I used the Brush tool to increase the exposure on her face, adding some warmth that gives it a glow. I set up two heavily diffused lights as her key and fill, then threw on a red gel and a very light blue gel. But with the gel in front of the lens, you get a diffused look in the image. The temperature of the gel depends on the hue you want. To get the “hazy-soft” look, I stuck a gel in front of the lens. The hair was huge, and the lighting was soft. This is my favorite look from this time period. Let’s take a look at some of the most striking imagery from the ’80s and recreate it. Whether it’s duotones or shooting on film, history has a way of repeating itself - and thank goodness it does! One of the aspects of photography that makes it so fun is replicating your favorite styles and looks.
You can see a lot of similarities in this trend to popular characteristics of photography today. I’m talking bright neon and pastel colors, palm trees, light grids, and gradients. One of our creative trends for 2019, called Yesterday’s Tomorrow, is packed with retrofuturistic 1980s imagery. No matter what era you were born in, there are certain images and styles that have endured, and they inspire creatives to take what was once old and make it new again. Here are several ways to recreate some of the iconic looks from portrait shots in the ’80s, including the beloved soap opera glow effect.
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