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Ok...I am a newbie. My first houre here in fact. I am drooling over all this eye candy. Such ART is AMAZING to me.
I was wondering how do the portraits get that soft dark look. It looks like vignette or something. And the color of the photograhy is stunning. How does one get that vibrant color without going overboard like in using curves in lab mode?
I hope I don't sound like a dork! I jsut figurd out that I have S*** load to learn.
I was wondering how do the portraits get that soft dark look. It looks like vignette or something. And the color of the photograhy is stunning. How does one get that vibrant color without going overboard like in using curves in lab mode?
I hope I don't sound like a dork! I jsut figurd out that I have S*** load to learn.
Link to some examples, so we can clue in on what type of styles/looks you are talking about.
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If you are talking about shots like this [link]
which you have in your favorites, here is my take. (And remember that there are probably a wide variety ways to this.
The edge vignetting can be done by using a curves adjustment layer and draging the top right corner (the highlight edge of the curve) straight down about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way down. You can then use a layer mask and paint with balack to mask out the curve everywhere except where you want the vignetting. You can then reduce the effect by reducing the opacity of the adjustment layer.
The color value / tonality of the picture is a bit harder, but these tips will get you somewhere in the right neighborhood. First use a levels adjustment layer and drag the dark end slider to the right and the light end slider to the right. You may also want to move the gamma/midtone slider slightly as needed. You then want to increase the contrast and saturation somewhat. There are a few ways to do this, including separate adjustment layers for each of these atributes. Another way is to create a duplicate of the background layer, desaturate the copy layer and then change the blending mode of the layer to soft light or overlay. Then adjust the opacity of the layer a bit to dial back the effect as needed. Depending on color values of the underlying shot, some additional color manipulation may be needed on an channel by channel basis.
The softenss you see in the linked picture is "bokeh" or blur from the shallow depth of field in the shot, resulting from it being shot at a relatively small apeture.
There was probably more (or perhaps differnt) things done to this particualt shot, but the above techniques will at least get you in the right direction.
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which you have in your favorites, here is my take. (And remember that there are probably a wide variety ways to this.
The edge vignetting can be done by using a curves adjustment layer and draging the top right corner (the highlight edge of the curve) straight down about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way down. You can then use a layer mask and paint with balack to mask out the curve everywhere except where you want the vignetting. You can then reduce the effect by reducing the opacity of the adjustment layer.
The color value / tonality of the picture is a bit harder, but these tips will get you somewhere in the right neighborhood. First use a levels adjustment layer and drag the dark end slider to the right and the light end slider to the right. You may also want to move the gamma/midtone slider slightly as needed. You then want to increase the contrast and saturation somewhat. There are a few ways to do this, including separate adjustment layers for each of these atributes. Another way is to create a duplicate of the background layer, desaturate the copy layer and then change the blending mode of the layer to soft light or overlay. Then adjust the opacity of the layer a bit to dial back the effect as needed. Depending on color values of the underlying shot, some additional color manipulation may be needed on an channel by channel basis.
The softenss you see in the linked picture is "bokeh" or blur from the shallow depth of field in the shot, resulting from it being shot at a relatively small apeture.
There was probably more (or perhaps differnt) things done to this particualt shot, but the above techniques will at least get you in the right direction.
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You can see before and after examples I just did up "quick and dirty" to show what you can do by adjusting the levels and using the desaturated layer. I also did some minor contrast and brightness adjustment as well.
Before: [link]
After: [link]
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Before: [link]
After: [link]
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That too.
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Find some images you like and ask the artist how it was done. There are so many ways to do everything that that's probably the best way to go. Another good place to look is in the tutorials section of DA or google searching 'photoshop tutorials' or something similar.
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which you have in your favorites, here is my take. (And remember that there are probably a wide variety ways to this.
The edge vignetting can be done by using a curves adjustment layer and draging the top right corner (the highlight edge of the curve) straight down about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way down. You can then use a layer mask and paint with balack to mask out the curve everywhere except where you want the vignetting. You can then reduce the effect by reducing the opacity of the adjustment layer.
The color value / tonality of the picture is a bit harder, but these tips will get you somewhere in the right neighborhood. First use a levels adjustment layer and drag the dark end slider to the right and the light end slider to the right. You may also want to move the gamma/midtone slider slightly as needed. You then want to increase the contrast and saturation somewhat. There are a few ways to do this, including separate adjustment layers for each of these atributes. Another way is to create a duplicate of the background layer, desaturate the copy layer and then change the blending mode of the layer to soft light or overlay. Then adjust the opacity of the layer a bit to dial back the effect as needed. Depending on color values of the underlying shot, some additional color manipulation may be needed on an channel by channel basis.
The softenss you see in the linked picture is "bokeh" or blur from the shallow depth of field in the shot, resulting from it being shot at a relatively small apeture.
There was probably more (or perhaps differnt) things done to this particualt shot, but the above techniques will at least get you in the right direction.
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If music be the food of love, play on! -W. Shakespear
I just can't watch: it's killing me. -The Killers
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