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Many thanks to Mike Herrmann for providing this interesting guide into how to create an Infra Red Effect with your images
CREATING INFRA RED IMAGES
A good candidate image will have a lot of green, yellow, blue sky
and white clouds
BEFORE EXPORTING TO PHOTOSHOP
BASIC PANEL LIGHTROOM
Boost Shadows to suit possibly and probably by 100%
Reduce highlights to suit possibly and again probably by 100%
Up whites till whites are white but not blown out, whites must not be grey
Up clarity to increase contrast, the image needs to be very contrasty.
COLOUR MODULE
Adjust hues
Up Greens
Up Yellows
Up Blues
These should be adjusted to taste but could easily be by 100%
Adjust luminance
Up Yellows
Up greens
Reduce blues
Again, adjusted to taste but quite likely by 100%
DETAIL MODULE
Adjust sharpening
Introduce a mask to mask all but sky, the mask will sharpen everything that remains white,
most important is the edge of clouds and the edge of prominent detail.
Sharpen up to say 100 by moving the detail slider
EXPORT TO PHOTOSHOP
Create a black and white adjustment layer
Up the greens to suit but probably to maximum
Up the yellows to suit but probably to maximum
Reduce Cyan to suit but probably about 70%