Digital Solarisation

In this post I will be discussing digital solaristion and demonstrating how to achieve this in photoshop.

Solarisation is when an images tones are reversed partially or wholly. So simply put, dark turns to light, light turns to dark.

I will be experiement digitally today in photoshop and with the help of photo tutplus I will be providing you with a step by step demonstrations on how to acheive this effect.

Step One:
Open image and convert into black and white

Layer > Adjustment layer > Black and White

Step Two: 

Curves: The curves adjustment layer is probably the most important tool and the only tool we really need to use for this technique.

Adjustment Panel Tools Palette or go Layer > New adjustment Layer > Curves

Step Three:

With the curve adjustment open you need to draw and inverted V.

Start at the bottom left, click once at output 0, input 0. Then hold down shift and then click again in the center at the top. (output 255, input 127).

Step Four:

Create another curves layer and make some final tweaks:

http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/post-processing/quick-tip-using-adobe-photoshop-to-create-a-solarised-photograph/