Faded Look

FADED DETAIL LOOK
Step 1– Create an empty Layer
Click the Create New Layer icon command at the bottom of the Layers Panel.
Step 2 – Duplicate document and convert to CMYK
With the original document open, go Image > Duplicate menu command to create a ‘copy’, as captured below.
Make the ‘copy’ document the active document by clicking on it. The dark blue title bar indicates the active document.
With the duplicate ‘copy’ document active, go to the Image > Mode >CMYK Color menu command.
At the next prompt choose Flatten, and then OK to commit the conversion.
Step 3 – Channel Observation
While the range of contrast, midtones and highlights vary between the two Color Modes, the CMYK Black channel contains just the right amount of information to use in our final version. An ideal excuse to avoid fiddling with Levels or Curves on color channels.
Now all we need to do is bring that Black channel over to the original RGB document. We can copy and paste it over, but that’s too easy. Let’s use the Apply Image command.
Activate the original document and activate the empty Layer 1 in the Layers Pane
Step 4 – Apply Image Command
1. Go Image > Apply Image menu command
2. At the Apply Image dialog:
Set the Source to the ‘copy’ CMYK document
Layer to Background (since there is only one Layer)
Channel to Black.
3. Targeting the active original RGB document and keep the default ‘Blending’ to Normal and Opacity to 100%.
4. Then click OK.
-This is just a start. explore the blend modes (on the B&W layer)
-Create a copy of the color image layer, place it at the top of the layer stack, explore more blend modes.
-Use a mask
-Add a blank layer explore the brushes for additional effects