Dragan style, Bla Bla style... MY STYLE!

[porschefan]

my style... hue/saturation adjustment layer, selective color adjustment layer, dodging, burning, blend mode "difference", etc.
What do you think? Thanks!

[EternalTomorrow]

looks good, but the skin looks a little fake , plastic-ish. It also looks a tad comic-bookish

Rocksteady,
Danno~

[saby]

Hi,

Your style is OK, I know Dragan's style, but could you tell something more about Bla Bla

saby

[Swampy]

JMHO, but no where close. Not dramatic enough, muddy, and flat looking.

[Ant]

I agree. Blech and it looks like you inflated his cheeks.

[happusa]

The before is better IMHO. What is it you are trying to do?

[superfrasky]

Before better, your dragan style skin is fake

[keiser]

Here is what I came up with for this Dragan-esque style. It came across a little darker than I wanted when I flattened image.

[sashacooper]

join the crowd

before:
http://www.half-lime.com/cooper/phot...463ff2acb1650/

and after:
http://www.half-lime.com/cooper/phot...463fee542aa21/

[KR1156]

sasha, cool look......but if you're gonna do all that work, why not bang out the shades?

[sashacooper]

Originally Posted by KR1156

sasha, cool look......but if you're gonna do all that work, why not bang out the shades?

Thanks for reply,
I was mostly concerned about skin should look like a stone with marblish glare without using body oils/sprays or special studio lights.

I agree, it came out dark. I'll try to adjust black channel of CMYK copy to get nice shadow contrast and details and re-apply it to RGB version.

[Dmax]

Hello folks
I am submiting my attempt and hope you will like that....

[marcop]

Originally Posted by sashacooper

join the crowd

before:
http://www.half-lime.com/cooper/phot...463ff2acb1650/

and after:
http://www.half-lime.com/cooper/phot...463fee542aa21/

sash, i like it a lot! nice job

[sashacooper]

Originally Posted by marcop

sash, i like it a lot! nice job

Thank you very much!

Check out my recent retouchings:
http://www.half-lime.com/cooper/phot...fects/retouch/

password 12345 for protected originals in that album

Sasha

[jbuetter]

Originally Posted by Dmax

Hello folks
I am submiting my attempt and hope you will like that....

i love the images
are they your original photos? if so, where did you shoot them?
if not, where did you find them?

[snook305]

not much like dragan at all.
There are many long threads on dragan all around..

Snook

[chillin]

Originally Posted by snook305

not much like dragan at all.
There are many long threads on dragan all around..

Snook

Like this one.

[garibaldi]

OK Ok, now before I catch flak for this, let me tell you I mean this in the most sincere way, Im joking, this response is in jest. But I couldnt resist. I read this post and thought to myself this exactly. Sometimes things jsut just turn out quite as you may have hoped, but definetley get an e for effort with trying. I often laugh most of the time at the posts up here since many of our attempts fall WAYYYYYY short of what we are trying to emulate.

SO without further adieu.......

Heres my Van gogh attempt, figured it is fitting with the Dragan attempts since the results seem to be similar. Tell me what ya think LOL theres the original and then my version.