This was converted using the gorman-holbert method, named after Greg Gorman and Mac Holbert. It’s another method developed by Rob Carr and gives outstanding results, especially for portraits.

This is from the millenium forest in hokkaido.

• Select Image > Mode > Lab Color to convert the image to Lab mode
• Go to the Channel palette and select the Lightness channel
• Select Image > Mode > Grayscale and discard the “a” and “b” channels
• While holding the Control key click on the Gray channel
• Select > Inverse to select the shadows
• With the shadows selected select Image > Mode > RGB Color to convert back to RGB
• Go to the Layers Palette
• Create a new Solid Color layer
• Select a color from the color chooser
• Change the Blending Mode of the solid color layer to Multiply
• Hit Command-Option-Shift-E to create a new merged layer
• Change the blending mode of the new layer to Overlay. Set opacity to 20%
• Select Filter > Other > High Pass
• Set the radius to 50 pixels