great style by jill greenberg

[bart_hickman]

This has that shiny skin look. Don't know if it captures what you were after. I also started with a not-so-great, underexposed, P&S flash photo.

This is large radius USM, some color balancing, and shadow/highlight adjustments.

Bart

[shellby]

For adding contrast in an image the good ol' S Curve works best.

The picture of the boy is getting there. You can acutally also paint colour onto his face using a 5% paint brush. Then use dodge and burn to bring out features. Try placing him onto another background for the surreal look.

[shellby]

Leonardo Vilela - Photographer:

Click here to see his work

[pure]

do you know – when duplicating an imagelayer and set it to blend "soft light" – what happens physically or digitally in the picture as merged result? i mean, sometimes it looks nice, like boosted colors and more contrast, i am only interested in the detail of this effect, like "what means "soft light" speaking technically" and so on?

thx

[singlo]

There are not just one style in the portfolio. A few photos are the classic illustrated look which can be produced by PWL with aggressive USM, Shadow Highlight, diffuse glow and/or high pass filters. This is really nothing new at all. Some effects on the photos are more to do with good lighting, make-up, models than retouching etc...In many cases, the spectacular highlights are popped applying a S-curve to one of the color channels with burn and dodge..there are several threads on this technique in this forum....

[mistermonday]

Pure,
Formula for Soft Light Blend Mode

f(a,b) = 2 * a * b + a2 * (1 - 2 * b) (for b < ½)
(else)
= sqrt(a) * (2 * b - 1) + (2 * a) * (1 - b)

Where a is the base color and b is the blend color
Regards, Murray

[pure]

thanks for that formula. funny.

another question reg. the bechbox instructions:

http://www.bechbox.dk/pwl/

there is something i dont understand:

point 3:

"Step 3: Color control
Here's a great way of controlling color - it can give you a dramatic effect or a very subtle one.

First make a new layer and merge all visible layers into that (Cmd-Option-Shift-E). Name it 'color'.

Now select 'Channels' in the layer palette and go through the Red, Green and Blue channels. Copy the ones you like (sometimes I use all three) to a new layer under 'Layers' and name it accordingly. Place these B&W layers beneath the 'color' layer as shown in the image to the right, where you can see that for this image I chose the green and the blue layer.

Go to the 'color' layer and change the blending mode to Color. Cool eh?

Now it's time to experiment! Change the opacity of the B&W layers to blend them together - maybe even try changing the blending modes. Often I use the opacity slider of the 'color' layer as a saturation control to desaturate, but with this image I didn't do that."


> "Place these B&W layers beneath the 'color' layer as shown in the image to the right, where you can see that for this image I chose the green and the blue layer.

Go to the 'color' layer and change the blending mode to Color. Cool eh?"

... i dont see any effect when placing the 2 or 3 RGB channels as a layer each above the main layer. did he mean to set the RGB greayscale layer also to blend mode "color" or not?

thx

[dannyzzz]

You should also take a look at this guys site. amazing feel. great pre and post production work.

http://www.krovblit.com/