Creative Portraits: High Key?

[keiser]

I am not sure if you would call this high key or something else. I like the effect though. Have used it on several pictures with great results.

[keiser]

Here are a couple of others I used it on.

[CathyH]

They are beautiful. What were your steps to achieve this?

[keiser]

I based them on this tutorial.
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/porcelain/porcelain.htm

vickie

[DannyRaphael]

Very nice interpretations, Vickie. Thx for the MyJanee link, too. She's done some great tutorials.

[palms]

I found this super action at deviantart
One problem is for some reason ( and i think it is probably a setting i have changed somewhere ) at the end sometimes you have to invert the image, but this is noted if you read all the comments, but not really a problem
this is the action at work all i have done is paint a bit of white in the top right hand corner, so that it best illustrates this, I would probably do a bit more work on it myself

Palms

[Peter S]

I don't normally do High Key, though I liked the picture so had a go.

Peter

[palms]

Originally Posted by Peter S

I don't normally do High Key, though I liked the picture so had a go.

Peter

I like that Peter how did you get the soft look ? blur? simplify

Palms

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by palms1

I like that Peter how did you get the soft look ? blur? simplify

Palms

Well No and No
I did some smoothing, you could use neat image etc. for this.
Used a trick mentioned by Flexmanta Here, which gives a high key type of look.
Used channel mixer to desaturate, don't ask the settings, every picture would be different, just to your taste.
I used lucis to add some contrast. Added a new layer filled with white, added a mask to remove the distracting bits about the head etc.
Hope this helps
Peter

[lkroll]

So many ways to highkey, that I won't cover that. What I do like is the pencil side of Highkey, so enhance the contrast and added GREYC blends to get that.

[MiningArt]

Such a happy face, thanks for the play. Interesting high key effects, I used gradient map and contrast blending.

[LQQKER]

An interesting style. For the most part I used Nik filters.

[alexmeta]

Interesting works.
Here is mine..