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How to achieve this plastic/unrealistic effect for a photo? (sample included)


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Hi. I've seen this type of effect used on photos, mostly for fashion ads, and I'm wondering if anyone knows more or less how its done. Possibly, it has to do with lighting during the photo shoot itself. But it seems to me that there is also a significant deal of processing in Photoshop.

Mostly what interests me is that quality that retains a photographic look, while at the same time gives the image a somewhat plastic and unrealistic feel to it.

darn... I tried to attach a sample image which shows exactly what I'm talking about... but it seems that since I'm new here I can't include links until I have at least 5 posts under my belt. You can see the image if you look here:

tinypic.com/r/el7kzo/7

thanks
 
I guess it isn't a effect, It's proably the light in the photo studio where the pictures are taken. Else you can try play around with your saturation settings. It's about make the colors "stronger", make the shadow and the light appear stronger in the picture with a larger difference between them. I guess :/
 
Even through, try copy the layer and make your copy a overlay. That is a very fast way to do it, but it's not the beautiest. :P
 
Zocress said:
Even through, try copy the layer and make your copy a overlay. That is a very fast way to do it, but it's not the beautiest. :P
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Thats a good method sometimes. Just need to lower Opacity and very intresting look can achieved using filter Highpass (from 2-3 for sharpness till 50 or more to colorize) on it.
 
Thanks all.

The "Dave Hill Look" tutorial and "Humdrum to photos to Cinematic Portraits" tutorial (posted by SeniorS) seem to be more or less what I'm looking for. I haven't had a chance to play around and test those methods yet, but I'll give them a try. Of course there's the lighting qualities that can only be achieved during the shoot rather than post. Thanks again.
 
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