Help me to get this retouch result ...

[drouber]

On this website:
http://www.simonstanmore.com/2007/03...city-look.html
you can find some guidelines on how an out-of-the camera image can be retouched/transformed into a nice looking glamour picture.
I tried to follow the instructions but the result is very disappointing.

Any help/suggestions on how to get the result shown on the webpage are welcome. Big thanks in advance.

[BillFrey]

Hi drouber,

What part of the instructions is confusing? Let's see your try and
perhaps we can figure out what went wrong.

Search RetouchPro, there is lots of information on Dragan/Hill/Fiscus.

PS: I don't think anyone will complain, but you can't use another's photographer's photo without their permission.

[drouber]

@BillFrey:
Thanks for your answer. I removed the links as you suggested.

The main problem for me is: (see website):
... The channel mix was set to monochrome ...
I don't know how to set the channel mix layer to monochrome.

[Swampy]

There is a checkbox in the bottom left corner of the channel mixer dialog box that says "monochrome".

[drouber]

@Swampy: thank you, at least one problem solved, haha.

Ok, here's what I tried:

1. duplicate layer, auto levels
2. add 'Channel Mixer', set Red and Blue to 90 and select monochrome at the bottom
3. merge down
4. apply S-curve with following points:
in: 25,123,133,230 and resp. out: 25,121,135,230

After this, I expected the skin color/tint to be similar to the one shown on the website. Mine is not even close.
Looks I'm missing something here.

[des151]

Hi drouber,
2. Channel mixer, red 10%-blue 90%. Both should total 100%.
Ray

[drouber]

@des151:
Thank you. This helps and the result is better but I still need to adjust brightness/contrast & desaturate to get the brownish look. My output still looks too yellow/orange.

[des151]

drouber,
Set your curves layer to luminosity, this should give you a brownish look.
Ray

[drouber]

Big thanks to all who replied. Problem solved. With all the hints given here, I finally managed to get the look I was looking for.