How to achieve this affect

[Chesterfield Hector]

Hi

Ive decided to start retouching my own photos, becuase I spend way too much money on retouching. About 200 pounds a month... sometimes more. I was wondering how the retoucher got from the image on the left to the image on the right. (I am the copyright owner of the image). The image on the left is my camera raw and the right is the retouched version. I was wondering How I can achieve this look using photshop myself. It honestly looks like she just clicked one button to make the changes. Any advice you could offer as to how the edit was achieved would be greatly appreciated

thanks

Chester

 

[WeedenDrank]

it seems like you would have to affect the colours, adding more warmth to it

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi Chesterfield Hector

There's many ways to achieve that colorized picture fx, but the easiest way will be thru color overlay or gradient map.

This may help, Warm Golden Sunsets with Gradient Maps

Have fun.

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

ahh so is it probably just a "high pass sharpen" and a gradient Map?

 

[Hoogle]

I wouldnt know in paint shop but yeah in photoshop I would say a high pass and a colour balance adjustment layer could achieve it fo the basic method

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

I tried a high pass sharpen and then colour adjustment. Could someone try changing the inage on the left and telling me what setting they used. Thanks

 

[Hoogle]

It is not perfect and a lot of steps probably because trying to mimic the 1 to much
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Bu I am sure there is an action you will like or invest in Nik Colour effex pro plugin if you are already spending 200 a month for it then colour effex pro may be $400 but I guarentee there is a 1 click setting you like in there and when you get to learn it then it is a very powerful plugin for photographers
here are a bunch of free actions
100 Free Photoshop Actions (And How to Make Your Own)

Here is a link to a demo of colour effex pro.
Color Efex Pro 4

 

[DullJack]

Really quick so not exact and his skin isn't very cleaned up.

there were a a lot steps and tweaks since i was trying to imitate rather than do it myself so i'm not going to get too specific.

removed blemishes
color adjustment layer: midtones sliders moved slightly toward red and magenta. moved a lot toward yellow.
played with smart sharpen until it looked close
small levels tweaks
small brightness/contrast tweaks
light dodge tool on brighter parts of face and hair
reduced saturation slightly

Once you find a look you like, you could make an action to do 90% of the work. Then you just have to handle blemishes and other picture specific tweaks.

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

Wow DullJack !!! Is that your editof the pic on the left? because it looks exactly like the pic on the right!!!!!! Its Brilliant!!!! thanks

 

[DullJack]

Thank you! Yeah I just sat them next to each-other and played around for a little while until I got something pretty close. I've never retouched photos before but that was actually pretty fun. Once you have his blemishes and wrinkles patch/healed/stamped out, the color adjustment and sharpen do almost all the work.

£200 please.

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

Hey Dull Jack what setting you used for the color balance adjustment.

I tried +20 for Red, -20 for Magenta and -53 for Yellow. But My pic makes him look super duper tanned. Will try lowering the saturation, but it just doesnt look right

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

trying to find out how to get this affect so i can save it as batch process or a script

 

[DullJack]

Hey Dull Jack what setting you used for the color balance adjustment.

I tried +20 for Red, -20 for Magenta and -53 for Yellow. But My pic makes him look super duper tanned. Will try lowering the saturation, but it just doesnt look right

I used +12 red, -20 magenta, -83 yellow. I also did +3 green on the Shadows sliders. All the other tweaks I did to the image probably skewed it quite a bit though, let me try again from scratch and see if I can get you some more exact settings.


EDIT:

Color adjustment layer - same settings as above
Smart Sharpen - amount: 177%, radius: 1.2, remove gaussian blur
Saturation -25

Burn tool on lips and nose shadow

dodge tool to make facial highlights

My burn and dodge tools are both (coincidentally) set to 26% exposure.

That's pretty much all I did this 2nd time, not as happy with it as I was with my first try though it took half the time and 1/4 the steps. I left the blemishes on his face this time since that is pretty picture-specific.

I tried to make it into an action for you, but I've never made one before and for whatever reason, it didn't want to accept the sharpening or the saturation changes into the action.

These settings are probably a good place to start, but definitely keep playing with them to find a personal style you really like.


Touched up without adjustment layer


And with the adjustment layer

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

thanks Jack that really would be appreciated!!!!!

 

[Chesterfield Hector]

Great Jack!! thanks a lot much better than any of my attempts!!!! first attempt by you was perfect!!!!! second one was almost as good

EDITED:Here is my attempt