Tanned skin Adobe Photoshop / Photo Retouch
Using the blue color channel, you can make skin color much more powerful, or tanned-looking, if you please. This method works especially well if you transform the photo into black-and-white afterwards. Although the subject will age about a decade, but the characteristics of their face will be more emphatic, and the wrinkles deeper.
High key effect Adobe Photoshop / Photo Retouch
Professional photographer jargon calls strong, unnatural over-exposure "High key". This is what we try to emulate in this article by preparing a B&W high key version of a color image. The procedure is further spiced by leaving the eyes colored, so that the gaze and the color catch the viewer's eyes.
Increasing dynamics Adobe Photoshop / Photo Retouch
You have got the landscape (building etc.), but the sky is bleached white? If you measure exposure at the sky, the object becomes too dark?