How did they do that?

[srwatters]

OK Photoshop wizards... I'd like to reproduce the tone in this image of Kat Von D and her ex:



Just for reference, this is what she looks like in a more natural state:



Any ideas?

[venchka]

Airbrush? On them.

venchka added 1 Minutes and 17 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

But seriously folks...

Howcome some clever Whiz Kid hasn't come up with a reverse process for a Photoshopped to the Max imgae? Huh?

[The Loft Studios]

It's a highly secretive process and if I told you, I've have to kill you, LOL.
That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.....

[venchka]

Wild guess, based on my airbrush the subjects S.A. remark: Could you use some colored gels to get going in the direction of those tones and then finish them in Photoshop? Something like a sepia gel?

[Gama Fotos]

Originally Posted by srwatters

OK Photoshop wizards... I'd like to reproduce the tone in this image of Kat Von D and her ex:
Any ideas?

There's a million ways to get there, as I've learned.
I'll show one that I did, against a white background with brownish/redish tint instead.



before/after


For this image, all the color editing was done completely in Adobe Lightroom. (can be done in photoshop as well). Photoshop was used to get rid of the blemish and export to web.

Secret: it's really about pushing the envolope on blackness and playing with the fill light to create the 3d look.
Second secret: reduce the saturation
Third secret: take really good pictures!

[srwatters]

Originally Posted by The Loft Studios

It's a highly secretive process and if I told you, I've have to kill you, LOL.
That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.....

Ahhh... So you couldn't figure it out either

The closest I've come is using a Nik Duplex filter plus some glamour glow. I'm wondering if it wasn't converted to B&W then toned. The white belt throws me off. Masked?

I seriously doubt it was airbrushed on the subjects. Gotta be post somehow.

Come on guys! I know the collective hive out there has the answer somewhere...

[srwatters]

Originally Posted by xentar

Secret: it's really about pushing the envolope on blackness and playing with the fill light to create the 3d look.
Second secret: reduce the saturation
Third secret: take really good pictures!

Nice image, but what do you mean by "pushing the envolope [sic] on blackness"?

[Gama Fotos]

Originally Posted by srwatters

Nice image, but what do you mean by "pushing the envolope [sic] on blackness"?

It means clicking on the little 'thingy' thats on the line and 'pushing' it to the right. I call it pushing the envelope because everyone is afraid to off to the deep end!

image:


But seriously, open up your raw file in photoshop, and you'll see "Blacks" & "Fill Light" & "Saturation". It's those three combinations I used. Go extreme on black/fill light and pull back on saturation.

[srwatters]

Thanks for the pointer. I was of course trying to do the toning post editing...

[dquisenberry]

If you have ps4 you can open the new b/w filter (do not have ps4 in front of me so writing this from memory) and in the bottom where you can create your own tone, click the eyedrop in the color and keep the mouse button down. Now drag outside PS to the image you want to duplicate the tone and let go. It uses that one for your toned b/w image.

You can also do the same thing in earlier versions of PS by using the same process above while creating panotone instead of using the b/w filter.

[hotshot38]

I think the last time I did something like this I created a new fill layer and chose a nice brown color. Then I fooled with the layer opacity, or changed the lighting to Screen or something like that. Sorry, don't have PS open and it was at least 6 months ago. I remember just 'fooling around' with setttings until I liked what I saw.

[msabas]

Ive seen effects like this and some use a combo of HDR and also Lucis Art..

Lucis is awesome you need to look into it.. http://www.lucisart.com/