How do you recreate the colors of these photos?

>>2798476
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>if you have photoshop or lightroom:

in lightroom or adobe camera raw, go to camera calibration and adjust the blue hue over to cyan, red over to orange, green over to cyan. check out what adjusting the saturation sliders do to your specific photo. perform finer adjustments from the hsl tab and tone curve. go to the main tab with the exposure and contrast sliders and lower the saturation and maybe boost the vibrancy, you'll have to see how it is for your photo.

after that you'll want to lift the blacks and lower the whites (look up how to make matte photos in lightroom or photoshop and you'll get the gist).

then it's on to split-toning, some of these add pink to highlights, some yellow, some green, and they all seem to add a cool colour to the shadows except middle-right possibly.

>alternatively:

get vsco or rni for lightroom or adobe camera raw

>if you have a smartphone and nothing else:

install vscocam

Shoot on (shitty) film.

>>2798476
You don't

>>2798476
Google Nik

>>2798517
This p/much

>>2798531
Shitty film wouldn't blow highlights that bad. If these were shot on firm (they could have been because of the amount of dof) then I would imagine the colour balance and exposure was all very average and the images were cooked in pp like >>2798517 said.

>>2798517
this is pretty accurate. but also, some of what makes these so appealing is how you can see cyan in the highlights wich compliments the orange in the skin tones and draws attention to the skin and the face.

I usually get this by -- with the tone curve -- raising the blue and green a bit in the highlights, and slightly below that, in the upper midtones in the shadows of the face, raise red and green. in the sourroundings of the photo you can see that in most of them theres elements of green, which compliments the slight tones of red in the shadows.

this kind of image processing doesnt work that well if you dont take care to what's actually in the photo. Raising the blacks and getting the shadows red will be pretty dumb, and not very effective if the surroundings are for example red maple leaves against a blue sky -- then some other processing would be more effective.