How do you do this?

[Insensitive.]

What technique is used to get this old school pin-up girl look? or is it more based on the photo itself than the retouching?

http://modelmayhm-1.vo.llnwd.net/d1/...a20b2e1fb1.jpg

http://modelmayhm-1.vo.llnwd.net/d1/...e627468f26.jpg


AND DEFINITELY this one:
http://modelmayhm-1.vo.llnwd.net/d1/...6a0be37b59.jpg
I LOVE the way her coat looks.

[AFrazier]

By the looks of them, just match the backgrounds to the clothing, but with slightly lighter shades, and use gradients. The rest is in the photography. If you photograph a girl in goth, she'll never look like a pin-up.
Just trace the subject with a path, copy the girl, or whatever the subject is, to a new layer, sample the color of the clothing with the eye dropper tool, one dark pixel, one light. Go back to the background layer, make a new adjustment layer with a gradient map. When the gradient bar comes up, click it and select the second square so it blanks out the background layer with a pure gradient rather than an overlay style.

[DJSoulglo]

You take a picture, and then you make it REALLY small.

Seriously though, retouch the picture as you would normally, then grab the colour of the jacket, base a nice gradient on that, select the girl on a seperate layer and the fill the background with that gradient. Add noise if needed and you're all set.

[Insensitive.]

DJSoul...Im going to beat you up for that. Sorry guys, i used the model mayhem link provided and thats what it did!! Im going to re-do it.

[Insensitive.]

K i did it, BUMP!