Faux Infra-red Effect with Camera Raw and Photoshop

By Dan Moughamian

Dan is back with a new tutorial (and more cool tips on the way for September!). In this segment he takes a look at the considerations from ACR to Photoshop CS5, for creating a nice black and white image and styling it with with a faux infra-red effect. This technique will also work in Photoshop CS4.

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Dan Moughamian wrote 21 articles on this blog.

Dan Moughamian is an experienced photographer and educator, and has worked with Adobe Photoshop since the early 1990s. He also has extensive experience with Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, plugins from Nik software, and many other digital imaging products. As a long-time member of their testing programs, Dan has collaborated with Adobe Systems to help enhance many of the core functions in Photoshop, Lightroom, and Elements. As an educator, Dan's focus is to help photographers at all levels get the most from their digital workflows. Tips on raw editing, layer masking, alpha channels, image adjustments, HDR photography, focus and lighting effects, and perspective correction, are just a few examples of the topics he covers. To learn more, you can visit Colortrails.com