Take a look at the Gallery on this website:

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk

What techniques are they using to get the bright colors and bright whites? Tutorial out there anywhere to accomplish the same effect? Any help is appreciated!

Thanks.

If this is the effect you are after this is done just using levels adjustment layers.

Duplicated background layer.
levels adjustment layer increase highlights darken shadows.
merge to a new layer
another levels adjustment on this layer only.
change layer mode to soft light.

Try it and have fun.

Christine

As they are shooting in studio conditions to the Venture house style, they will be setting up their lighting with a view to the kind of final image they want -- so a lot of light on the background to bleach it out to white, and probably over-exposing the shot slightly. Actually, if you watch their video of the Venture experience, you'll see their studio setup. Shooting the shot properly in the first place is the #1 thing that contributes to the final look, and if you've done that then there's realy only a little bit of tweaking of levels and saturation required afterwards.

If you want to achieve a similar look on a photo not taken under those conditions, I would start by replacing the background with pure white. Then apply a levels adjustment layer to increase the contrast and whiten the whites in the actual image. Then hue/saturation adjustment layer(s) increase the saturation of colours in the image. Depending on the lighting conditions under which the photo was taken, you may also want to slightly desaturate skintones.