Kelli Sweet  wrote:
...  you suppose is done here?

By "here" what are you referring to?

Nona Emanon wrote:
You should be more specific.

Well from my perspective I see a hazy filtered effect on almost every image.  So you're saying there's no one recipe and he uses different techniques for each?  I was thinking it's the same technique but of course variables in color of tint, blend modes etc.

Jeff Fiore wrote:
You can ask him but it will cost.

http://ibarraphoto.com/tutorials/

I saw that.  I believe the tutorial is from beginning to end of his process.  I only am curious as to his last step which is the hazy quality on most of his images.

FLEXmanta wrote:
-Anticontrast Curves...
-Masked Solid color layers on a composite blending mode...
-Textures...

The image has to suit that style but it's not very complex.

Are you referring to "S" Curves?  I was just reading about those.  Thanks!

Peano wrote:

By "here" what are you referring to?

"Here" meaning the filtering technique as stated in the headline.

Kelli Sweet  wrote:
"Here" meaning the filtering technique as stated in the headline.

You asked about the filtering technique used "here." Were you referring to a particular picture?

Peano wrote:

You asked about the filtering technique used "here." Were you referring to a particular picture?

Well it would seem to me that all his images have a consistent hazy quality.  So no, I wasn't referring to a particular image.

Benski wrote:
But the best I've seen have been from people who've had a one to one session with him. I think if you're relatively new to Photoshop, I'd take him up on his tutorial offer. The advice would probably be a brilliant foundation. Very tempted to do it myself.

I'm not new to Photoshop perse, so not really wanting to pay that amount of money for stuff I already know.  What I AM thinking of doing though, is asking if he'll discount the price significantly if all I want to know is what he's using in combination as his go-to filtering - i.e., ASE, curves, blend modes etc..

Something tells me that he'll still ask for full price in exchange for his "secret" though.

Kelli Sweet  wrote:
Well it would seem to me that all his images have a consistent hazy quality.  So no, I wasn't referring to a particular image.

That's mostly cross-processing in curves. Different settings for different images, but here's the key to it. In this image, I found the areas that would ordinarily be black (or nearly so) and white (or nearly so) and put sample points on them.

Notice how high the "black" RGB values are. That accounts for the hazy quality. No true blacks. And the white isn't true (neutral) white.



To get those uneven shadow values (17.66.75), pull up the bottoms of the respective color curves. So the blue channel, for instance, would be adjusted like this:



Similarly for the highlight ends of those curves. The "white" RGB values here are 254.249.230. To get those, pull down the top ends of the respective color curves. Blue is much lower than the rest. That accounts for the yellow cast in the whites.

You can check RGB values on most of these images at the brightest and darkest points and see how the curves were crossed. In this one, the red channel was left at 0 in the shadows, but G and B were both pulled way up to give a cyan cast to the blacks. When you find combinations you like, you can save them as curves presets.

Peano wrote:
That's mostly cross-processing in curves. Different settings for different images, but here's the key to it. In this image, I found the areas that would ordinarily be black (or nearly so) and white (or nearly so) and put sample points on them.

Notice how high the "black" RGB values are. That accounts for the hazy quality. No true blacks. And the white isn't true (neutral) white.



To get those uneven shadow values (17.66.75), pull up the bottoms of the respective color curves. So the blue channel, for instance, would be adjusted like this:



Similarly for the highlight ends of those curves. The "white" RGB values here are 254.249.230. To get those, pull down the top ends of the respective color curves. Blue is much lower than the rest. That accounts for the yellow cast in the whites.

You can check RGB values on most of these images at the brightest and darkest points and see how the curves were crossed. In this one, the red channel was left at 0 in the shadows, but G and B were both pulled way up to give a cyan cast to the blacks. When you find combinations you like, you can save them as curves presets.

All your posts are very well explained and helpful! Thanks!

sanjayb wrote:
All your posts are very well explained and helpful! Thanks!

My pleasure. There's not much point in dashing off cryptic replies that make sense only to experts.

Kelli Sweet  wrote:
...  you suppose is done here?  It looks like selective color to me, but that would seem almost too simple.

http://ibarraphoto.com/portraits/#

Read the summary of the technique here:
http://sidvasandani.blogspot.com/2011/0 … -look.html

What you also need to develop besides the technique is the ability to render emotion with the right color on the right light.

1472 wrote:
Ahhh yet another ibarra thread ... niiiice

I know Ibarra from deviant art cause he always has the most gorgeous models.
Well, it's kinda just this one model in particular.. but she's practically a goddess XD

Kelli Sweet  wrote:

I'm not new to Photoshop perse, so not really wanting to pay that amount of money for stuff I already know.  What I AM thinking of doing though, is asking if he'll discount the price significantly if all I want to know is what he's using in combination as his go-to filtering - i.e., ASE, curves, blend modes etc..

Something tells me that he'll still ask for full price in exchange for his "secret" though.

If you already knew it you wouldn't need the tutorial and wouldn't need to ask. Not knowing the difference between curves layers means you don't know photoshop.

SMASSH STUDIO wrote:
If you already knew it you wouldn't need the tutorial and wouldn't need to ask. Not knowing the difference between curves layers means you don't know photoshop.

This thread is exactly a year old....maybe Kelli took the class already by now, or moved on from this over-hyped style...

SMASSH STUDIO wrote:
If you already knew it you wouldn't need the tutorial and wouldn't need to ask. Not knowing the difference between curves layers means you don't know photoshop.

Wow. I come back a year later and this is what I find?.. REALLY?  lol.

I find it quite amusing that I don't know photoshop because I've never played around with curves layers to get this effect, which actually has nothing to do with curves. If it did, everyone's images would look as awesome as Jaime's and he wouldn't be paying his rent via all of us who've tried to replicate with no success.  I wasn't claiming to know everything about photoshop. If you'd have read into that correctly, I said that (at the time) I didn't want to spend that amount of money on information that I DID already know. 80 percent of Jaime's session includes basics of photoshop before he even gets into his color methods. 

So as you've probably figured out, I did end up taking his tutorial which was well worth it if not alone for the fact that he's an interesting, super chill dude to converse with for 5 hours!  His processing turned out to be just the icing on the cake.

Kelli Sweet  wrote:

Wow. I come back a year later and this is what I find?.. REALLY?  lol.

I find it quite amusing that I don't know photoshop because I've never played around with curves layers to get this effect, which actually has nothing to do with curves. If it did, everyone's images would look as awesome as Jaime's and he wouldn't be paying his rent via all of us who've tried to replicate with no success.  I wasn't claiming to know everything about photoshop. If you'd have read into that correctly, I said that (at the time) I didn't want to spend that amount of money on information that I DID already know. 80 percent of Jaime's session includes basics of photoshop before he even gets into his color methods. 

So as you've probably figured out, I did end up taking his tutorial which was well worth it if not alone for the fact that he's an interesting, super chill dude to converse with for 5 hours!  His processing turned out to be just the icing on the cake.

Great to hear you spend time on his coarse....as you're the topicstarter, maybe willing to share a bit on how he get's his images the way they are?

richy01 wrote:
Great to hear you spend time on his coarse....as you're the topicstarter, maybe willing to share a bit on how he get's his images the way they are?

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you..

And I don't kill nicely.

FLEXmanta wrote:
The exclusion blending mode also helps.

If you throw a random color layer over the image set to Exclusion blend mode, and then clip a Hue/Sat adjustment layer to that you can twiddle the knobs in real time and get some nice feedback on looks by varying the hue, saturation and lightness on the fly.

NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote:
If you throw a random color layer over the image set to Exclusion blend mode, and then clip a Hue/Sat adjustment layer to that you can twiddle the knobs in real time and get some nice feedback on looks by varying the hue, saturation and lightness on the fly.

Yes. Or just a hue/sat layer by itself. Tick "Colorize," set blend to Exclusion, then play with the sliders.

1472 wrote:
Ahhh yet another ibarra thread ... niiiice

The guy is good but I bet he chuckles when he sees people trying to
Figure out his style! Haha
I think he uses cfx pro on some of it:-)

Peano wrote:

Yes. Or just a hue/sat layer by itself. Tick "Colorize," set blend to Exclusion, then play with the sliders.

Hmmm. I like that idea.

Kelli Sweet  wrote:

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you..

And I don't kill nicely.

I don't mind...but you would have to answer to my wife...you don't want that....
But seriously...can you share some insights?

NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote:

If you throw a random color layer over the image set to Exclusion blend mode, and then clip a Hue/Sat adjustment layer to that you can twiddle the knobs in real time and get some nice feedback on looks by varying the hue, saturation and lightness on the fly.

This is pretty cool, thanks!