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Photographer

X2 photography

Posts: 29

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, US

I'm not sure of the name of this type of toning but I'm a big fan of it!
https://www.creativelive.com/sites/defa … 00x900.jpg

Aug 31 14 02:50 am Link

Photographer

Eyesso

Posts: 1218

Orlando, Florida, US

The short answer is....I don't really know.  I can't see the original image.  But if I had to guess based on elements contained, here is what I would do (in lightroom). 

-"crush blacks" a bit
- move the temp slightly towards warm
- split tone to add a subtle hue to the shadows

Aug 31 14 08:54 am Link

Photographer

X2 photography

Posts: 29

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, US

Thank you, I'll try it.

Sep 01 14 02:39 am Link

Retoucher

StephanieLM Retouching

Posts: 32

San Francisco, California, US

I almost always tone at the end in case the client decides they don't like it or in case I change my mind. In other words, tone in Photoshop, not Lightroom or ACR.  For something similar to this, I'd personally colorize in a hue/saturation adjustment layer, set the blend mode to color, luminosity mask it so I could tone the shadows differently, and then reduce the opacity of the layer.  I'm sure there are a ton of other ways to do it--selective color comes to mind--but that's how I've always done it for something with this global of an appearance.

Sep 02 14 04:49 pm Link

Photographer

X2 photography

Posts: 29

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, US

Thank you for your response!

Sep 10 14 02:08 am Link

Retoucher

AaronArthurLl

Posts: 9

Palm Springs, California, US

I use a combination of Selective Color, curves, and level layers on photoshop.
My end results are usually great. Selective color is an amazing tool for stylizing a photo in photoshop.

Sep 13 14 05:07 pm Link

Photographer

Cassandra Panek

Posts: 1569

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

This actually looks a lot like one of the stock color look up tables in Photoshop--Edgy Amber. That and maybe a couple quick tweaks to levels or selective color should get you pretty close.

ETA--on closer inspection, Edgy Amber is way more yellow than the photo posted above, but it might still help get you where you're trying to go.

Sep 13 14 10:03 pm Link

Retoucher

CLICK retouch

Posts: 235

Denver, Colorado, US

Or is it maybe good photography, establishing color palette on the set, and then dodge and burn and local color adjustments? smile

Sep 14 14 05:48 pm Link

Photographer

Danielhope

Posts: 1

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Since the image belongs to creativelive and it has the name pratik on it, it most likely belongs to this course https://www.creativelive.com/courses/ar … ratik-naik
where there is a good chance that the guy explains exactly what he did to obtain such result.

Sep 15 14 10:13 pm Link

Admin

Model Mayhem Edu

Posts: 1314

Los Angeles, California, US

Sep 24 14 11:48 am Link

Photographer

AJ_In_Atlanta

Posts: 13053

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Danielhope wrote:
Since the image belongs to creativelive and it has the name pratik on it, it most likely belongs to this course https://www.creativelive.com/courses/ar … ratik-naik
where there is a good chance that the guy explains exactly what he did to obtain such result.

Yes he covers it, however I seem to recall him doing something like this in CP1

Sep 24 14 12:12 pm Link

Retoucher

ST Retouch

Posts: 393

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

X2 photography wrote:
I'm not sure of the name of this type of toning but I'm a big fan of it!
https://www.creativelive.com/sites/defa … 00x900.jpg

Open blank layer above your layer with model and fill that layer  with 100% opacity of brown color from palette
Then change blending mode on that layer from normal to soft light .
Then play with opacity until you are satisfied and also if is necessary play with saturation , these steps above can make sometimes lil bit over saturated image ( depends on your original file and settings).
Also final steps contrast -s Curves.

Best
ST

Sep 24 14 12:44 pm Link