Need Help! Which effects are used here?

[vapor_s04]

OK. Thank you very much. Maybe youve got another hint for me?

Here is the original picture from the post #35! Just a change in the layer, and some soften white light? What do you think.



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[Tom Mann]

There are lots of ways to do this, as well, and you are certainly going in a good direction if you use a white layer an an appropriate blending mode.

Here's both versions of the image that you posted (roughly cropped and sized for easy comparison):



I found a gray adjustment layer in normal blending mode at 40% opacity brought the darker version into pretty good agreement with the lighter version:



...but lots of other methods would likely work equally well and could even be used in conjunction with the above method to get even closer agreement.

HTH,

Tom

 

[vapor_s04]

Hey friends,

I know, I will drive you crazy, but I need your help again. I try and I try, but I dont get the result I really want to!

I would like to go from this picture, to this:
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and I would like to go from this to this picture:

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Anisotrophy isnt the key in this case, because its simply to clear and to detailed for it. Hope you can help me, I fall in to desperate!

 

[Tom Mann]

To be honest, I'm getting a little tired of trying to answer your requests using only the native tools built into Photoshop. This takes too much of my time. So, to speed up things, for the 2nd pair of images in your most recent posting, I turned to a commercial plugin, NIK Color Efx Pro, specifically, the Bleach Bypass module.

Just one application of the Bleach Bypass module in NIK CEP got the overall look reasonably close, except for the red shirt. I didn't feel like spending a lot of time on this, but a quick application of a hue/saturation adjustment layer to only the shirt brought this as close as I felt like doing.

One of the problems in doing an exact match is the small size and quality (ie, compressed JPGs) of the images that you supply. Processing such images always exaggerates noise and artifacts, so try to ignore these.

To demonstrate my suggested approach efx, I scaled and cropped the "original" to roughly match up with the "goal" image. I then constructed a GIF animation of the "original", my processed version of it, and the "goal" image.

Spend some more time tweaking it, and I'm sure you could get even closer, but using Bleach Bypass in NIK CEP is certainly a reasonable way to start point.



HTH,

T

 

[Tom Mann]

I hope my previous post helped you, but may I ask, why are you concentrating almost exclusively on precisely emulating some one else's special efx style rather than developing your own styles?

There are so, so many interesting / crazy things one can do to an image, why don't you come up with some of your own efx? For example, here's the result of a minute or two of mindless playing around with the starting image -- you get a completely different feel that is uniquely your own.

Tom

 

[vapor_s04]

First of all, I have to say thank you for all the help.

I only want to know the techniques to understand the programm better and better. I wanna improve my skills, and thats why I used this nice forum here. But its okay, first of all I will try to do it on my own, before I disturb you here. Sorry.

 

[ibclare]

Hey vapor, you haven't disturbed anyone here. We all understand emulating the work of others in order to learn. You're cool!

 

[Tom Mann]

Sorry, vapor, I didn't word my previous post well - it didn't come out right.

It's not that your questions were was a big bother, but it just seemed to me like you were devoting too much time to trying to exactly match relatively subtle adjustments when photoshop offers a huge range of much more noticeable and visually powerful effects that you should be familiar with.

As Clare said, emulating more advanced artists is an excellent way to learn, but don't neglect to try to develop your own interests and styles as you go along.

Best regards,

Tom M