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HELP please! Which tool or technique I need to use?


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Hi guys!

I usually research stuff I need to know in the internet.. but in this case I'm lost!
Can you guys give me tips on how to do this effect on the basketball player only (lebron)... I want to create the same effect on a regular photograph (another basketball player). Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
 

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Don't worry, Mike. It too will go by the way of bell bottom jeans, afros, Hallmark greeting cards that are mostly B&W with a single spot of color, tail fins on cars, yellow-green cross processing to signify a gritty locale, etc.

;-)

T
 
fads come and go with anything in what photos look like this will fade away then come back in 20 years as the new vintage look lol.
 
Hoogle said:
I guess we should have a dedicated topaz forum and a Tutorial on this so we can just link everyone back to it probably the most requested effect on here lately we have a number of threads.
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Maybe not an entire forum but at least sticky with all the links!

Not trying to offend, but I will be grateful when this fad passes!
 
Tom

I read the links and it seem like you was the one that got close enough. I have Topaz Bundle. Can you email me the preset you used? chosen_one_mar at yahoo. Thanks
 
@OneDeep -

1. I presume you saw the following comment which I originally made in post #26 in this thread:
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/photoshop-newbies/43915-any-help-effect.html


"... That being said, I should caution you that using pro plugins like this is never a simple matter of clicking an Instagram-like preset button. To use such plugins effectively, you need to be proficient at standard Photoshop techniques such as quickly selecting a part of the image (eg, just the skin, or just the background) and performing separate actions to these areas. For example, after I used Topaz adjust to get the skin to look the way I wanted, the jerseys didn't look that good, so I masked part of the effect away from them. In addition, for drama, I wanted the background to have even deeper blacks than when it started, so I not only had to prevent Topaz from acting on it, I needed additional darkening of the dark tones. I achieved this by using a masked "Levels" adjustment layer on it, but used the blendIF sliders to prevent darkening of the colored lights in the background.

Because such tasks require a reasonable level of proficiency with PS, I don't recommend such plugins until the student is already quite facile with the tools built into PS.
..."


For further discussion of this, take a look at my responses (starting around post #7) in this thread:
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...89-does-anybody-know-how-generate-effect.html. Note particularly the cautions I expressed in posts #14 and #18.


2. When cleaning out old files, I lost the Topaz Adjust preset that I used, but fortunately, I posted it here:
Post #4 in: http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/photoshop-newbies/44485-help-image.html

3. One of our senior members, Hoogle has recently posted a tutorial that illustrates a much less finickly way to produce a very similar look. You should take a look at it:
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...os/46104-cartoon-effect-aka-topaz-effect.html


HTH,

Tom M
 
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