How to Create a Surreal Traveling House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 6: Enhance the Image’s Color

Now, let’s enhance the overall color of our image. To start, let’s create a Solid Color adjustment layer. To create that, click on the “Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button”.

After clicking on that, the contextual menu would open. Once open, click on Solid Color from the menu.

Once the Solid Color box opens, input the following on the # box:

Then, use the following settings for it:

• Blending mode: Exclusion
• Opacity: 50%

Next, let’s adjust the Color Balance; from the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button, choose Color Balance from the menu:

Once it opens, input the following:

• Color Levels: -17, 6, 25
• Tone Balance: Midtones
• Preserve Luminosity: Check

Next, let’s create a Levels adjustment layer, still from the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button.

Once it opens, input the following:

• Channel: Red
• Input levels: 15, 1.00, 255
• Channel: Green
• Input levels: 7, 1.00, 255
• Channel: Blue
• Input levels: 15, 1.00, 255

The image should now be similar to this:

Next, let’s create another Solid Color adjustment layer. This time, input the following:

• #: 142c58

• Blending Mode: Soft Light
• Opacity: 30%

Next, let’s create a Gradient Map adjustment layer.

Once it opens, choose the following gradient:

After that, change its settings to the following:

• Blending Mode: Luminosity
• Opacity: 60%

Next, let’s create a Channel Mixer adjustment layer.

Once it opens, input the following:

• Preset: Custom
• Output Channel: Gray
• Source Channels
• Red: 0%
• Green: +100%
• Blue: 0%
• Constant: 0%
• Monochrome: Check

Use the following Blending mode: Darken Next, let’s create another Solid Color adjustment layer.

• #: ff7e00

• Blending Mode: Soft Light
• Opacity: 10%

Next, let’s create a Photo Filter adjustment layer.

Choose the following:

Finally, let’s create an Exposure adjustment layer.

• Exposure: +0.24
• Offset: +0.0020
• Gamma Correction: 1.04

Final Results

Download the PSD

Traveling House.zip

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