Honestly, when I looked up, the "After" was what I saw. Now, your pictures might not be this "yellow-ish" but I wanted a great contrast to exist between the before and after.

So we'll be using Paint.net for this tutorial. It's quite similar to photoshop so it shouldn't be a problem.

If you're using a basic photo editor, all you need to do is reduce the warmth and adjust the brightness and contrast but you might prefer more complex editors to get the precise look you're going for.


Thee first step is to open the image then crop and edit other aspects of your photo ( I simply cropped mine).

The next step requires a basic knowledge of colour (which I covered here) and light. I'll explain.

White light is made up of three colours: Red, Blue and Green. So:

Red + Blue= Purple;
Red + Green= Yellow;
Green + Blue= Cyan ( a shade between Green and Blue).

This knowledge is important when playing with levels (the slider thingie with the histogram at it's sides in the picture below.

Ok, now click on "Adjustment" then "levels".


The letters "RGB" stand for Red, Green and Blue.

So according to the formulae above, If I were to unclick "G", the picture would look more purple.

Now, to our "Sliders". We'll only be dealing with the first bar in this case. The top slider makes the picture brighter and the bottom slider makes it darker.

The key is to play around with colour combinations of red, blue & green with varying brightness till you achieve the look you want.

Not sure how? No worries, here's a step-by-step guide of how I made my picture white:



I unticked the "R" and "G" then moved the sliders and I got the first picture. I realized it needed more green so I combined green and blue (I ticked both "G" and "B" then moved the sliders) till I was fine with the shade of white.

Next, I edited the pictured itself.



I increased the saturation (Adjustments >> Hue/Saturation) then adjusted the slider as a whole ( RGB= white).

I then made the pictures brighter (Adjustments >> Brightness/contrast), adjusted the saturation (intensity) and voila!



The end result. Now that's more like what I saw when I looked up.

I hope this tutorial was clear and helpful/useful? It's my first photography tutorial and I wasn't sure how to go about it.

Got any extra tips & questions? Let me know in the comments, I'd love to hear from you!

Cheers!



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