how to get this amazing look (heimo)?

[Lanenga]

Originally Posted by chrishoggy

Really? What a constructive comment to make. Care to enlighten us all on exactly how it's done then

Haha yeah sorry for that, did not meant for anybody to feel offended. When I read it back I realized it was not as I meant to put it. Changed it, but to late. You allready read it!


How it was done:
1: Some minor corrections on the color and lighting.
2: Sharpened the photo
-> Set mode to LAB Color (Images/Mode/Lab Color)
-> Go to channels settings
-> Select Lightness channel
-> Unsharpen Mask 20% Radius 4,0 Thresshold 0 (Filters/Sharpen/Unsharpen Mask)
-> Set mode back to RGB (Images/Mode/RGB)
3: Making the sky come out (more blue/darker)
-> Added a selective color layer
-> Turned CYAN, BLUE, WHITES and NEUTRALS all to +100% Black
-> Made a MASK so that only the sky was affected by these settings
-> Duplicated the selective-color layer and oppacity to 10-20%
4: Some correction on the grass
-> Added a selective color layer
-> Turned in the GREENS the Magenta to -100%
-> Turned in the GREENS the Black to +100%
-> Made a MASK so only a small portion of the grass would be affected(only around her feet and in the lower part of her dress)
5: Made her arms less red
-> Added a slective color layer
-> Turned in the REDS the Cyan to +100%
-> Turned in the YELLOWS the Blacks to -100%
-> Made a MASK so ony her arms would be affected
6: Bring some reds back in her face
-> Copied the origenal photo on top
-> Added a MASK so only the origenal face + a portion of the neck and upperbody was visible
-> Set Opacity to 50% (this could be less or more but this is what I used)


Hope I made it up al little this way

PS.
HEIMO uses a lot of photo filters
So you might want to add a little photo filter layer
-> Add Photo-Filter layer on top of all the other layers
-> Select COLOR and use #333e4b (Or what ever color you think looks nice)
-> Set Density to a 50% and Preserve Luminosity
-> Rurn the Master Opacity to about 30% (or to whatever you like)

http://www.northpolestudio.nl/retouch/Before&after.jpg

This all can be done really fast
So you could spent the rest of your time on details!(you charge them for the hour, right )
Like retouching her eyes, maybe her waist and some facial expressions

[Syd]

Does this look too bleached? I used both Hue/Sat and Selective color adjustment layers. (With the Selective color layers I reduced the amount of black in the reds to lighten her skin). I darkened her lips and lightened her eyes. And that was about it.

Syd

[chrishoggy]

Only playing
I like what you have done, but still think he may be using more than one shot to create the look. Reason I think this is.
If you look on HEIMO's advertising portfolio and at the 07 broadview shot. Take a close look at the spectators. Notice how the light source on the spectators is different. 3rd and 4th men from the right have light on their left hand side. Yet the sun is clearly on their right. Also the sky is under exposed, yet the shadow area of the building is very light. This makes for an impossible shot IMHO . So it's either a marriage of 2 or more shots, or the camera can sometimes lie
I noticed that a few of the shots seem to have light sources/shaddows that don't add up. May be this is down to lighting or PS effects, but looks more like 2 or more shots to me

[Lanenga]

Yes that's right
07 Broadview is made out of more then 1 photo
Probably around 6 Happends a lot. All studio work, but I would have made a better effort on making the lighting add up.

For a photo like the one of Faust you do not need multiple shots because all the info you want on the photo is allready in it. You do not need external sky or spectators. Just enhance what's allready there even though you might not see it.

@chrishoggy:
Saw your site. Nice job on the retouching of old photos! This glam/commercial look is more my cup of tea

[chrishoggy]

I can do glamour work, but it's not something I can say I am happy doing. I do some for local amateur photographers, but I'm nowhere near high end standard/speed. I wish I could show some of my better work, but getting people to sign over the right to publish them is nearly impossible.
I was looking for a few images yesterday, and had to hunt through 3000+ to find them. I have 200gig of stored hard drives full images, but just can't use them in the public domain.
I'm trying to get some old (100 years+) originals that I can do from scratch. Then have them as high res examples. It's just a matter of dropping on some damaged ones that have good subject matter worth restoring .

[goose443]

Woderful site. Here is an attempt at a recreation based on one of the photographs. I think it really does depend on the pose though. A little more dramatic would have helped.

[manta1900]

Play with this beta filter's settings and I hope you'll get very close.

[cspringer]

I see the entire image a bit flat. I used my Illustrated look and PWL to remap the lighting.

[goose443]

I think I'm happier with this attempt.

[goose443]

I noticed the angle of the photo makes the lower part of her body and especially her hands look rather large. This also has to do with the fact that her knee is out and the fabric on the dress appears a little stiff. I have attempted to correct this.

[tinkerbell50404]

Here I thought I'd give it a try

[Godmother]

cspringer

I love what you have done with the drees

[MrPatch]

Hello, im pretty new here..

I played around with selective color, hue saturation and Selective sharpening.

To get the skin tone. I selected all of the skin area and used MATCH COLOR - (image>adjusments>match color), in Match Color you click Neutralize and play around with Image Options until you get the Porcelain look..

it was a quick way to do, i bet if you use d&b after you use match color you can definately achieve the look..also sharpen edges (lips, eyes) i could not do this because the image is so small..

ok, later guys



http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/227...n4faustox2.jpg

[superkoax]

here is my try! I just added a layer with filer coloru or layer fill on top of the dark areas and dodged them our abit ....you can see bad retouch by on her hands, but It took me 10min,,,so...


I CARE TO SHARE! If you dare....muahahahah!



Gerry