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Hello Catz! (I like your name very MOEWch)

This looks like some reflex camera with instagram filter work ^^
But here is what you could do with 'Toshop to achieve a nearly PURRfect result:

-> First, blur the background. You got an incredible quantity of tutorials everywhere, and i'm sur IamSam has done a beautiful one (the contrary would surprise me).
-> Add a Photo Filter in photoshop (a yellow-whitish color) at around 20-30% of density.
-> Adjust the exposure (slightly increase the exposure, and decrease the gamma correction by about the same).
-> Adjust the vibrance & saturation to your desire (- vibrance + saturation, again both slightly).

(optional) -> Add some flares! Flares, even at 20% opacity, are always gorgeous on "instagrammed" photos :)


But hey, i'm not pro. I'm still exploring all the aspects of Photoshop, i'm sure there is a more efficient or precise way to do this.



Meow.
 
@OP - As you probably already know, these photos were taken by: http://dreamakerphotography.com/ . There is a contact form on that website. Why don't you simply ask the photographer directly? You would be surprised how many pros will be happy to share their techniques with others.

@OMG - "...This looks like some reflex camera with instagram filter work..."

Hopefully, you were joking when you made the above statement. At the risk of stating the obvious, a professional photographer using an obviously good camera would never go to all the trouble and loss of quality associated with transferring their DSLR photos to Instagram. In fact, people who do this are called "Instagram Cheaters" because they are trying to make people think their DSLR images were taken on a cell phone. Pro photographers don't have the time for such nonsense.

Rather, I can almost guarantee that the photographer used one of the many Photoshop actions available to give warm, sunny romantic effects. Just go to Google Images and type in {romantic warm photoshop actions}, and you will be presented with page after page of similar pix. Some of these will be links to individuals and companies selling such Photoshop actions. Examples include:
http://www.actions4photoshop.com/atn/photo-effects/daylight-vintage-romantic-photo-action.aspx
http://www.mcpactions.com/actions/all-actions.html?limit=all
http://www.florabellacollection.com/florabella-classic-workflow-photoshop-actions.html
http://paintthemoon.net/blog/photoshop-actions-2/wonderland-action-set/
https://www.etsy.com/market/photoshop_actions

Tom M
 
Tom Mann said:
@OMG - "...This looks like some reflex camera with instagram filter work..."

Hopefully, you were joking when you made the above statement. At the risk of stating the obvious, a professional photographer using an obviously good camera would never go to all the trouble and loss of quality associated with transferring their DSLR photos to Instagram. In fact, people who do this are called "Instagram Cheaters" because they are trying to make people think their DSLR images were taken on a cell phone. Pro photographers don't have the time for such nonsense.
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Hello Tom Mann,

I'm sincerly sorry that the sarcastic tone in my message was kinda sloppy; I wrote the message at 12:20pm with little to no sleep the nights before.
I didn't knew the nomination for the "instagram cheaters", but it's what i way trying to express in my message :)


Here I found two videos for you Catz, this morning i interested myself aswell in recreating this effect.
A little bit warmer than the effect you have shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GwOi1lJYPo
The effect looks like the popular "Nashville" one, i think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjg4cQzwlPM


Good luck :)
 
No big deal, mate -- I was pretty sure you were joking, but I was worried that the OP (...if they ever re-appear ...) might have taken you seriously.

Thanks for digging up links to those tutorials. IMHO, they were pretty close to what the OP asked about, but, as you pointed out, not quite a perfect match. I was particularly taken aback by the 2nd one -- I have never seen anyone use so many adjustment layers to come up with a simple effect. It was crazy.

Specifically, almost everything needed to closely match the 1st image cited in this thread can be done by taking the image into ACR and moving a few sliders. About the only thing that one needs PS for is to simulate the diffuse veiling flare that occurs when a dirty or low quality lens is pointed into the sun. For that, I use the lens flare filter in PS. I don't have time to exactly reproduce the look the OP asked for (I wasn't going for a romantic look), but I had a tweaked version of the fiddler that I posted in a parallel thread that's pretty close. I didn't save the PSD file, so I'm going by memory, but I'm 99.9% sure that my technique was as I described above: a quick set of color temp and tonality adjustments in ACR, then I added the flare in PS as the final step. I attached the before and after versions below.

D7B_1817nef-LR3-jpg_900px-02_for_web.jpg

D7B_1817nef-LR3-jpg_900px-02_for_web_jpg-acr-ps02a_698px_wide-01.jpg

BTW, if there is an action available to make the effect that you want, there is another, very easy way to figure out how they did it: Actions are incredibly easy to reverse engineer. Just download a copy of the action, open it, and read off each and every step that it contains. It's a great way to learn.

HTH,

Tom M
 
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