Speed effects for photos

Do you know this situation? You just shot a really nice pic and you don't really see any reason why you should retouch it and just want to make it look even cooler without spending hours of work. So here I will come up with some VERY quick methods to make some pics look neat. As always it depends on the actual image and your taste which one fits to your shot or even if any. I will show all of them with the same pic so that you can clearly distinguish the different effects these methods have on the images. The shot was taken by Cara Gutman. The different methods must be done independently. So with every new point you should start with a vanilla image.


1. Duplicate the image layer twice, select the top one, increase its brightness by 60, desaturate it(luminosity) and set its layermode to screen. Select the middle layer, increase its contrast by 60 and set its layer mode to value:


2. Duplicate the image layer, add an layer mask that contains a greyscale copy of the layer itself and duplicate the layer with the mask again. Set the top layer's mode to screen and the middle one to multiply and invert this ones layer masks colors. Increase this mask's contrast by 100. Now select the other layer mask and increase brightness by 30 and contrast by 80. Finally apply "Filter" -> "Noise" -> "RGB Noise" with "correlated Noise" activated and an amount of 0.35 to the layer mask of the "screen" layer:


3. Duplicate the image layer, add an layer mask that contains a greyscale copy of the layer itself. Now increase tha masks contrast by 40 and colorize the layer with the settings you want. You have got to fiddle a bit around to find some fitting settings:

That's it for now. Thanks for reading this very little guide.