creating "silver light"

[megl]

Originally Posted by nvstyle

check out this photographers work:

http://www.musecube.com/mick/

Cool - thanks for the link. Some of his stuff is great ... some of it not so great.

You should perhaps warn people, that there's a lot of nude content in there ;-)

/megl

[nvstyle]

Sorry about that, I know some forums are against sites like that...I have been hunting for a tutorial to get that affect.

[shellby]

Great work there. On Dragon's site he says it is "Painting with Light" I think that is basically what we are going for here. You can come up with many results. Each person is different - that's the great thing about this technique. I am really enjoying playing around with it.

Dragon's site: http://andrzejdragan.com/

[CJ Swartz]

Okay, I'll post an experiment also -- after looking at megl's work, practicing with CSpringer's PWL, etc.

[byRo]

Originally Posted by nvstyle

Sorry about that, I know some forums are against sites like that.....

I wouldn't say anybody here is against the site (interesting stuff, BTW), just would be nice to post a nude alert. OK?

........

This thread started off asking about "silver Light", and now the Dragan technique has been mentioned a couple of times.
I find them similar (dark contrast, low saturation, lotsa texture) but I'd been thinking that the "silver" look was, in fact, more like a metal finish and the Dragan more like "hyper-realism".

Comments anyone?

Rô

[NancyJ]

Originally Posted by byRo

I wouldn't say anybody here is against the site (interesting stuff, BTW), just would be nice to post a nude alert. OK?

definately a 'NSFW' link... (not safe for work)

[nvstyle]

OK guys i found this technique on another site, but i having a hard time understand the "S" curve part......
heres what this guy says:
First I Smart Sharpened it to show the pores (microcontrast). Then I unsharp masked with a larger radius (macrocontrast) to emphasize the wrinkles by "Fading To" Darken. To top it off, I added a steep "S" curve set to Luminosity to emulate the overall contrast and color.
And this is his result:
http://www.photo.net/bboard/big-imag...ad_id=26207184

By the way can someone explain the "S" curve.......I have been working on this technique since last night, I really like it.....Thanks guys

[AutumnRae]

Nvstyle,
The S curve is the shape of the line that goes through the Curves box. The more you tweak it to look like an S (raise highlights, lower shadows), the more contrast the image will have. So to follow this step, you need to:
create a new curves adjustment layer
raise the highlights, lower the shadows
change the blending mode of the adjustment layer to Luminosity

Hope this helped!
Cheers,
AutumnRae

[DigiCore]

I took a stab at it and had some interesting results. Below are the links to the before and after pictures.

http://s2creative.com/test1before.jpg
http://s2creative.com/test1after.jpg

[nvstyle]

Still have trouble with the end process, trying to make the skin look smooth after all the sharpen.....
Should i use a certain amount of radius??
this is the picture im trying to draganize:

http://photobucket.com/albums/b305/p...t=d76ff885.jpg

[megl]

Hey - my tutorial is done. I started a new thread, so let's discuss it there:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...436#post108436

/megl

[edgework]

Originally Posted by DigiCore

I took a stab at it and had some interesting results. Below are the links to the before and after pictures.

http://s2creative.com/test1before.jpg
http://s2creative.com/test1after.jpg

I took a shot at your image, with these results.

[Chance_1]

This is my rendition, done in PS for "Creating Silver Light" thread that was looking for some solutions, so I thought I would try my hand at it, this is painted in RGB with equal amounts of grey across the entire image, which was what was in that thread upon analyzing that first image. I have intentionally added texture, to show the effect on the smooth portions (smudged) and the textured portions as well. Please note, that the entire image including eyes were done that way, of course you can mask out whatever you want like eyes, and replace with original via masks.

The original image is at "Ana Beatriz Barros" Thread under Forums > Photo-Based Art > Turning Portraits into Digital Sketches. This link should work, but it did not earlier:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=24262

This is the Silver Painted Image:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...chmentid=27688

This software does not permit the posting of the same images twice.

[lkroll]

Used Toadies Metalwork filter and Flaming Pear's Pixel trash and blended together (some cleaning too) to get this result. As you all know, I'm a huge filter fan (especially when they are free).

P.S.: Borrowed this photo from Panpan's earlier post.

[shellby]

Ok here is more of a silver look. The previous one I did I painted in with gold...

I have just played around with multiple layers and blend modes here... Also used some Median blur.

[leuallen]

Shelby

Here is my version.

Larry

[masterful]

I was experimenting a little bit with the "silver" photo and this is what I managed to do..

[PSPuser]

ibookster, working off of your photo, heres my go at it for silver light.
Duplicate layer , Chrome effect, saturate layer, no reduction on opacity.

[shellby]

The image he provided on the left was the reference for "silver light". I don't think he actually means silver skin.

[ibookster]

Originally Posted by megl

ibookster - I'm not sure either of what you are seeking. The two pics you posted are very different.

Nevertheless - here's my interpretation of the term 'silver light' with your photo:

http://www.sendefladen.dk/dpreview/ibookster.jpg

/megl

Thats the closest one so far. The term is so hard to describe. One thing to keep in mind is that I'm talking about silver light, not silver skin

[ibookster]

Originally Posted by shellby

The image he provided on the left was the reference for "silver light". I don't think he actually means silver skin.

you got it. some seem to get it confused

[PSPuser]

I confused it , the overall effect you wanted was a silver cast of light on the person or object.
I think! lol

[snook305]

Megl That looks really cool. Care to share your steps...
I really like your Silvery look you got in your post ..
Very Nice
Thanks
Snook

[megl]

Originally Posted by snook305

Megl That looks really cool. Care to share your steps...
I really like your Silvery look you got in your post ..
Very Nice
Thanks
Snook

Thanks Snook! I used the same techniques as described in the tutorial I made recently:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-restoration/12314-fiscus-waldman-silver-light-tutorial-here.html

/megl

[shellby]

I have used an image from a Tutorial:
http://tutorials.smugmug.com/gallery/1169397/1

I have tried to create the silver light (see first image for ref)