Question on lighting effect

[Caesium]

http://www.amydresser.com/pages/hurleygirl.html#


The original shows very little hue in the rim light (as it should). The after pic has a very strong green tinge in the rim lighting. How does she achieve the colorized lighting in post?

[cspringer]

check out my PS Studio Lighting tutorial. I'll have to get back to you on the colorized lighting.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=23345725

[Caesium]

Thanks Murray. Any other tips on the other ways to get there? I like your method (got some decent results) but am always curious of the other ways to "skin a cat" =)

[superkoax]

have you trie using the brush and use the behind function instead of normal? I have tried that on stuff before and sometimes you can carefully go around the edges of the hair and then make a curve layer and mask out the rest...just a wild suggestion here...maybe it works, maybe not cheers!


gerry

[Pam]

I did this using Selective Color and Hue/sat adjustment layers. I adjusted Cyans on both. After a levels adjustment, I used a brushed on a bit of light cyan in color burn mode to increase the effect in certain areas.

[Heretic]

This shot almost looks like an HDR photography with a lot of post retouching.

[Caesium]

Heh, this is not HDR. Pam, did you paint with the light cyan right on the layer or was this part of one of the adjustment layers?

[Pam]

Caesium, I painted on an empty layer set to Color burn. Here are the exact settings and layers I used...

From bottom layer to top layer:

1 Selective color adjustment layer, Cyans:
Cyan +39
Magneta -24
Yellow 0
Blacks -2

2 Hue/sat adjusment layer #1, Cyans:
Hue -8
Saturation +30
Lightness 0

3 Hue/sat adjustment layer #2, Cyans:
Hue 0
Saturation +40
Lightness -18

4 Empty layer set to "Color burn" mode. Brush over hair highlights using this color:
R - 140
G - 233
B - 234

5 Levels adjustment to increase contrast.