Forums > Digital Art and Retouching > This editing technique

Photographer

Amanda Jackson Photo

Posts: 619

Portland, Oregon, US

I'm trying to achieve a similar look in my photos and would like some help to determine how it was done.  I'm going to guess they started by slightly underexposing the image. 
I appreciate any thoughts.
https://i.imgur.com/5nGQjgj.jpg

May 16 16 11:04 pm Link

Photographer

thiswayup

Posts: 1136

Runcorn, England, United Kingdom

To me it looks like:

Lift the beginning of the curve up so nothing is full black anymore, give the curve a hump in mid-range, shift the color balance for shadows over to red and/or magenta.

May 17 16 06:38 am Link