Photo Retouching - - The demystification of dave hill! let's all help! - Page 4

skydog · #46 07-07-2007, 06:00 PM

Gerry..for the last photo you posted..what did you do?

superkoax · #47 07-07-2007, 06:58 PM

skydog: I used dodge and burn to get more wrinkles in the clothes! good tip is to make shadows darker with burn highlighst lighter with dodge...then shapened only the dark colours in the picture...got more depth in th ehair with dodge and burn...and added shadow to his face...THEN adde a curve layer that I took down the blue and adde some red...

Gerry

skydog · #48 07-07-2007, 09:56 PM

Gerry,

It seems you have been working hard to learn and understand how to effectively use dodge and burn. I also believe this is a good technique to know. When you dodge or burn, have you decided when its best to choose highlights, midtone or shadow?

When thinking about Hill, Fiscus or others, they had to learn their technique from practice and a combination of little tips and tricks they learned from others a long the way. I certainly haven't seen a cookbook from Adobe when Photoshop versions were released.

superkoax · #49 07-08-2007, 05:14 AM

Skydog: Well, learning the dodge and burn is what I see as a lifelong commitment...The most difficult part is to understand shadows and higlights...therefor I usually visit hill, fiscus and olafs web pages to see how they direct light from different angles...I haven't seen any books on the matter of dodge and burn to get higlights and burn! Im currently working with gradient tool on softlight layer to add white and dark spots to see how effective this is! because in some picture hill and fiscus have they have added strong highlights, that I haven't been able to get only with dodge tool...so white and gradient tool is something I'm working on know

GErry

skydog · #50 07-08-2007, 07:41 AM

Maybe there is a book in your future...

des151 · #51 07-08-2007, 09:56 AM

Hi Gerry,
This is my humble try.
Ray

Ich.Mario · #52 07-08-2007, 05:13 PM

not bad - what did you do?

tena< · #53 07-09-2007, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by superkoax

crex: okey...I'm not sure what to do? It's says that I have 100downloads to this...But where can I put it up now? maybe I can upload it again?

anybody know where I can find a good filesharing site that allows files over 100mb?

you can upload the file in http://in.solit.us, I would love to check this PSD to see the results

superkoax · #54 07-09-2007, 01:32 PM

here is th enew link for the psd! I took down the size so the psd file wouldn't be so big!

http://in.solit.us/archives/show/55633

Gerry

Alfred · #55 07-13-2007, 04:28 PM

How's that Gerry?

superkoax · #56 07-13-2007, 05:19 PM

alfred: it's nice...you can see some dave hill in there...it's a bit "greyish" in color and a bit flat...more contrast and sharpening maybe?

gerry

Alfred · #57 07-13-2007, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by superkoax

alfred: it's nice...you can see some dave hill in there...it's a bit "greyish" in color and a bit flat...more contrast and sharpening maybe?

gerry

Thanks, I will give it another shot tomorrow.

Alfred · #58 07-14-2007, 01:43 PM

One more try, rather subtle but I like it

snook305 · #59 07-24-2007, 09:01 AM

Can someone repost the PSD file from superkroax... Both his post are no good. First one dead and the second never loads and I have HIGH spped DSL
Would appreciate to be able to evaluate the work and post my repsonse..:+}
Thanks
Snook

superkoax · #60 07-24-2007, 05:27 PM

snook: I will check it out now...it should be available from the second link! will check it

Gerry