Photo Retouching - - is this ok?

superkoax · #1 02-10-2007, 05:50 PM

tried out a james taylor inspired portrait of an ld man! didn't want him to look younge, but to change the mood of the picture abit

Gerry

Littlecoo · #2 02-10-2007, 06:10 PM

Gerry, I like where you are going with that. IMO now that you have dropped back the colour saturation and tone, the image looks a bit flat. Some more contrast etc to acheive depth and texture, especially in the man's face would make a great difference.

mistermonday · #3 02-10-2007, 08:48 PM

Nice effect, Gerry. I left a little more color but gave him a slightly more weathered look.
Regards, Murray

Kraellin · #4 02-12-2007, 02:40 PM

yup, this is always interesting. the 'dragan' look does this quite dramatically. there are some good dodge and burn ones and paint with light ones also.

superkoax, would you mind if i used this image on another site, specifically the filterforge.com site? i'm making filters there and one of the filters i'm currently working on is a portrait and luminosity masking filter. your picture here is a good one to practice one and sometimes i like to display my results over there.

here's an example of one:

LonK · #5 02-13-2007, 01:05 PM

Like Craig said, this portrait is a perfect candidate for the Dragan effect.

Shadd · #6 02-13-2007, 01:38 PM

Hi Folks, I’ve just found your site and finding it fascinating. I really like the “Dragan effect” how do you achieve that and can I download a h-res image to give my option on it?.
Ralph

superkoax · #7 02-13-2007, 01:47 PM

my dragan take on it....

superkoax · #8 02-13-2007, 03:57 PM

one more...

superkoax · #9 02-13-2007, 04:02 PM

another one...added contrast and abit of warmth to it!

Gerry

skydog · #10 02-13-2007, 09:05 PM

nice Gerry....

Kraellin · #11 02-14-2007, 12:20 AM

superkoax,

would you mind if i used this image on another site, specifically the filterforge.com site? i'm making filters there and one of the filters i'm currently working on is a portrait and luminosity masking filter. your picture here is a good one to practice one and sometimes i like to display my results over there.

JimmyMJB2 · #12 02-15-2007, 03:26 AM

Ralph,

The Dragan Effect that they are referring to is a technique of manipulating a portrait to achieve a look similar to the work done by Andrzej Dragan. Here’s his site:

http://andrzejdragan.com/

I don’t know how everyone here is going about achieving their particular results, but I have found some stuff that might be helpful. There is this 10 step tutorial that claims to do the trick (I personally don’t think that they got the Dragan look):

http://www.mutantsoup.com/10steps.zip

There is also an Action that you can download, but I have my doubts about it and never bothered with it. The best thing I have found is this video tutorial:

http://www.savefile.com/files/60502

Hope that helps.

Shadd · #13 02-15-2007, 02:01 PM

Many thanks for the link Jimmy.

Ralph

Littlecoo · #14 02-15-2007, 06:53 PM

I love your image Gerry, I just had to try my hand at it.
In keeping with the style you are working to acheive, I just used a combo of layer blending modes and some masking as shown in the screenshot of my layer pallette.

superkoax · #15 02-16-2007, 01:32 PM

littlecoo: very nice one! sent you a message!

Gerry