How to achieve this?

[andy_wpo]

Hy.Was just asking my self how you achive this chromatic from this photo.I try something with brushes,color balance,selectiv colors but dont manage to get anywhere close to this

http://i.imgur.com/uAauzoM.jpg

[klev]

Re: How to achieve this?

Why not post your closest result? I can't even tell where you're off without something to look at.

[skoobey]

Re: How to achieve this?

Selectively clip blacks ,then lift the black point in a liner fashion (black point in curves up).

[andy_wpo]

Re: How to achieve this?

Why not post your closest result? I can't even tell where you're off without something to look at.

This would be my try to achive something similar

http://i.imgur.com/n9bmpVx.jpg

Skoobey,i dont understand what you mean by "Selectively clip blacks".do you mean in curves or levels and play with RGB line?

[Isedo]

Re: How to achieve this?

You can do that in many ways, you can move the curves seprately in Red, Green and Blue channel. Move the starting and ending point down or up and see the look you like. You can play also with Selective Color layer with Neutrals or also Channel Mixer...and so on. Play with masks as well to have more controlled final look.

You can clip blacks also in the selective color panel. ;-)

[klev]

Re: How to achieve this?

This would be my try to achive something similar

http://i.imgur.com/n9bmpVx.jpg

Skoobey,i dont understand what you mean by "Selectively clip blacks".do you mean in curves or levels and play with RGB line?

Well I was hoping for a better start. My own approach would probably involve channel mixer, although there are other ways to handle it. If you have trouble with this kind of color convergence, try changing to 32 bit first, then using channel mixer. It should ease the process a bit. With anything involving cars, plan on masking out the car paint. It's quite important if you want good results. I don't think you want so much of an overlay of one color, but I also think that background needs some work. The lighting itself doesn't draw you to the subject.

[skoobey]

Re: How to achieve this?

I meant, use a couple of clipping adjustments, as what will make something nera black clip, it won't affect things that are lighter quite that much, so you make and mask a separate adjustment for those areas. Now that everything you wnat black is black, simply add a global adjustment like curves and lift the black point up.

[Aladdin]

Re: How to achieve this?

Granted, there are many ways to achieve things in Photoshop, however, for this particular look, Luminosity masks are your only friend! You have 10 channels to play with along with "blend-if".

[skoobey]

Re: How to achieve this?

Just give up on the luminosity masks Aladdin, trust me, I've been there, there is no replacement for painting.

[andy_wpo]

Re: How to achieve this?

Dont know guys,i try,try and cant achive this type of photos.I dont find tutorials for this type of photo editing anywhere.I will show you diff pics with the effect i would like to achive.

http://i.imgur.com/jC8BPPL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/siJsQw9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yPPBKjC.jpg

[klev]

Re: How to achieve this?

Dont know guys,i try,try and cant achive this type of photos.I dont find tutorials for this type of photo editing anywhere.I will show you diff pics with the effect i would like to achive.

http://i.imgur.com/jC8BPPL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/siJsQw9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yPPBKjC.jpg

You had some decent responses. Perhaps you should come back to this later.

[andy_wpo]

Re: How to achieve this?

Yeah klev i know what you are saying and appreciate all the efforts from you guys,but as long as i dont achive what i look is my duty to search till i find that kind of effect.Maybe would be simple to post here a photo for retouching and if some of you want,retouch and lets see if whe can find that look.Tnks

http://i.imgur.com/8pEpgpb.jpg

[Aladdin]

Re: How to achieve this?

Yeah klev i know what you are saying and appreciate all the efforts from you guys,but as long as i dont achive what i look is my duty to search till i find that kind of effect.Maybe would be simple to post here a photo for retouching and if some of you want,retouch and lets see if whe can find that look.Tnks

http://i.imgur.com/8pEpgpb.jpg

Not same texture as the the one in your first post, that Mercedes is metallic, this car is just a grey paint. You will not get same results.

[Flashtones]

Re: How to achieve this?

Not same texture as the the one in your first post, that Mercedes is metallic, this car is just a grey paint. You will not get same results.

This was another he likes:

http://i.imgur.com/jC8BPPL.jpg

[Flashtones]

Re: How to achieve this?

This would be my try to achive something similar
http://i.imgur.com/n9bmpVx.jpg

Sometimes it's hard to help because one is not sure people are focusing on the same aspects of an image: mood, color, blacks, saturation, contrast, lighting, etc.

Where do you feel you've failed? If someone else posted this as an example for you what would you tell them it lacks, or that you do or don't like about it?