Nicolas Hanson

Cross processing looks

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Search for Photoshop cross-processing tutorials, you should find a few 🤓.

It’s basically fiddling around with unganged curves, which can get you some of the way.

Try emulating the Tony Scott movie “Domino”. Hardcore cross-processing. Most probably a mix between chemical cross-processing and grading. Maybe someone in this forum knows how the look process for “Domino” was done.

DI by Sonnenfeld (Co3), really cool movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/

 

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Definitely, the Custom Curve is the right tool to achieve the cross processing look.

Here is a starting point using Resolve Custom Curve:
In the first node, as normal let’s balance the exposure and WB of the image
In the next node, unengaged the RGB and Y curve
Draw an invert S curve for each RGB channel depending on the range, (high, low and mid-tone) we want the specific colors to be.
To accentuate or minimize the look, let's use the Y only to add contrast
In addition, Unengaged the Low and high Soft can be used to fine-tune individual channels
For the classic blue look, draw an S curve to the RG channels with a positive mid-tone, and an inverted curve to the blue channel, (negative mid-tone)
To minimize and protect a specific color, we can use the eyes dropper to sample that element. This is especially useful to protect skin tone from an aggressive color effect of cross processing.
 
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