Id like to know how do you think this is done? He always has great skin tone in his photos. whatever i do i cant get that colour of skintones (skintones are always complementary in colour to the rest of the image).
here are few exsamples:
Peano
Posts: 3,747
Washington, District of Columbia, US
Looks like cross-processing to me. Check these links to see how to analyze shadow and highlight values. Those will tell most of the tale about what was done. (In this case, there was also some bending in the middle of some curves, such as pulling down the middle of the red curve.)
Natalia_Taffarel
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Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
spikey123123 wrote: since this is quite new to me, could you tell me what settings did you use to get back to "normal" photo? and why? if it is not to much trouble
Peano
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Washington, District of Columbia, US
spikey123123 wrote: since this is quite new to me, could you tell me what settings did you use to get back to "normal" photo? and why? if it is not to much trouble
Setting white and black points will get rid of the cast in the highlights and shadows. For the midtones, I used the gray dropper in different places at various settings -- several different curves layers for those adjustments, selectively applied with the mask.
I thought you menaged to do it only with curves without masks. That way you would have done my life much easier. I can do it using masks and hue/sat layer or solid color layers. But the problem i usualy get is it does not look natural. On his photos iyt looks like the strobe light is filtered towards tungsten but that is not the case. I can never get it to look natural on wrinkeled clothes like on this photo
http://s42.radikal.ru/i098/1103/b5/82e6135fcd05.jpg And the skin tones look great to me. I think becouse of his skin tones i can always recognize it is his photo. Im not able to duplicate this look and i like it a lot.
Daniel Ecoff
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SHERMAN OAKS, California, US
Think !!!! thats my recommendation. Think COLOR... you want cross ? Warm Hi-lites, Cold Shadows... there are many ways to create that in PS. MANY !!!! the simplest being Color Correction.
Thank you llamamayhem, Peano and Natalie for taking their quality time to reply to this thread and of course and share on getting the looks. Thanks for OP to share this question as well.
I really love this controlled tone done by Natalie, May I know if you could share the PSD?
Peano wrote: Looks like cross-processing to me. Check these links to see how to analyze shadow and highlight values. Those will tell most of the tale about what was done. (In this case, there was also some bending in the middle of some curves, such as pulling down the middle of the red curve.)
Natalia_Taffarel wrote: Btw I might be in Singapore again October this year
Thank you Natalia for the quick response. I was unable to attend your workshop due to military commitment but this time I am sure I won't miss it. I look forward to your arrival in Singapore
I did that with one of your images. You can have the psd - adj layers and masks.
Maybe he can post it
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