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[rightmovephotography]

I had a family send me a pinterest selection and nearly all of them had a brown tone similar to this:

Not really my editing style so I came to master for help.  Here is my family.  Can you assist?

[Damien Symonds]

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[rightmovephotography]

I am not smart enough to figure out how to edit the post, nor delete and start over.  Suggestions?

Here is the page link: https://www.joannecookphotography.com.au/darwin-family-photography-blog/r9pfnyckp75uhiw4bzejjg2o7jurl9

 

[Damien Symonds]

Do you have links to example images where the people are wearing red and green like yours?  I need to see how those colours are dealt with.

[rightmovephotography]

Thats a really good point.  She sent me 6 and they are all earth tones, grays, whites and tans

[rightmovephotography]

The muted colors thing is not my style at all.  I gave it a shot but not happy with the result.  This is my normal edit, then desaturate the reds and greens, gradient map Brown (8c6510) to white normal 5%, and a black and white gradient map soft light 68% and finally a subject only levels midtone boost 1.08.  Clearly, that style is just not my thing,

[Damien Symonds]

15 hours ago, rightmovephotography said:

Thats a really good point.  She sent me 6 and they are all earth tones, grays, whites and tans

Did you ask her?

[rightmovephotography]

She gave the usual woman answer, "either is fine".  I pressed her and she prefers the muted edit, husband the color pop. So I am going to do a mix in the gallery.

Is there a simple way to add more of a brown hue or tone?

[Damien Symonds]

How do you feel about this?

https://max.mailbigfile.com/b5526120fef6abe0ac15f783a7bdaa4a/listFiles.php

[rightmovephotography]

This style is just not my thing but it would give me a very different look in a gallery.  I sent it over to the mom and she liked it much better than mine but I did up the lightness to zero.  I just felt it was a bit dark.  For future people looking at the post, (when the big file link expires)  Damien added a hue/saturation layer 0% saturation -40 lightness with soft light and a solid fill color#99664d set to hue at 60%.

I never would have considered the hue/saturation at 0% in soft light.  I have to get the gallery out so I will take your edit and mix them in so there is some variety.  Thanks