Infra red workflow is dependent on the image that you start with, tweeks will need to be done to this but this workflow will give you a base with which to play around with the settings these are all done using Photoshop adjustment layers, these are available on the psd file which you can download here. for other versions of Photoshop and other programs can be followed using standard adjustments.

Step 1: open up the raw file in Photoshop, if you havent created a custom profile for your camera then do this now as you will need this for photoshop raw processing as well. (unless you are opening up an edit file from Lightroom)




Step 2: once you are happy with the sharpness and colour base of the raw image open it up as an image




Step 3: the first adjustment is the colour swap, this takes the red and blue channels and swaps them over so red becomes blue and blue becomes red this should give you a blue sky and change any foliage to a red colour, when you open up the "Channel Swap" either as an adjustment layer or a standard layer adjustment the levels for each individual colour will be at 100, for the red colour move the red slider to 0 and the blue slider to 100 on the blue colour, do the opposite so set the blue slider to 0 and the red slider to 100 this should give you the starting of the colour swapped image but adjust the colour sliders until you are happy with the result.




Step 4: curves and contrast. This is just a case of adjusting the contrast and curves on a per image basis to get the desired effect on your image.