HELP: Fog & Fashion

[fwolfsteiner]

Hi,
it might be easy to do, but I did not manage to get the following effect in my pictures.
Who can help?
Many thanks!

Best Regards
Frank

[DJSoulglo]

Do a layer with a transparant - white gradient?

[Lasse]

I find it helps to sometimes do more than one gradient. or a feathered selection, added with a wacom. it is however very depended on the image, lighter images is easyer as they will seem more likely to have flaire in them.

[3rdIOpenwide08]

i've even used a lens flare to get that look before. just set it to screen and play with it till you get something you like.

[vapour]

Or just a very large white airbrush on a separate layer and adjust opacity and layer mode to taste.

[0lBaldy]

Frank, welcome to RetouchPRO Hope you enjoy your visits here!

What photo manipulation software are you using?

[Karlington]

I made a test. The thing is, as Lasse mentioned, that the lightening from start probably has to be right for creating this kind of effect. But this is what I manage to get after 15 minutes and a couple of layers (white gradients with opacity, solid brownish color set to multiply to simulate a shadow kind of effect, and a d&b together with a curves layer to create the halo light around her)

[Karlington]

Gah! Now that I look at the images in my browser it just looks totaly washed out. Screw this! This was probably out of my league anyway!

[Sinisa]

i agree with vapour. this is one of my results, very subtle though. i used white large brush on colour layer and low opacity.

[grannysdc]

Me too, Vapour rules!

[Verywierd]

I was trying to avoid the high key, classical soft focus effect that simple graduated white layers or even hand brushed white layers give, and make it look more like smoke or fog.

Two cloud layers, a graduated white layer with noise and gaussian blur, a duplicate of the base layer in multiply mode, two hand painted layers in white and grey for the backgroud and edges, and another duplicate of base layer slightly blurred and applied in soft light. Some hand painted adjustements of masks on each of the layers and a graduated black to white layer in overlay mode to control the lighting balance.

[igot2pman]

Here is my take on it, the lens flare looks good but there is no flare in the example picture.

Upon examination it seems to be black and color desiderated and also with a soft purple glow.

I normally use this technique for darkening the blacks but in this case it removes blacks. I used the exposure adjustment with a mask to reduce the blacks (+offest, -gama). I then did a gradient from very little removal to high removal using the mask.

The huh/sat was slightly reduced at this point.

Next, I used a solid color fill with mask set to soft light blending mode with a dark purple. I copied the same mask of the exposure into the solid color fill.

This took about 5 min, but it could be better with more precise masking.

[fwolfsteiner]

Hi,

great, thanks for all the tips...

(result soon

All the best
Frank