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What filter/adjustments needed to make this picture look like this one:


I would play with color temp and white balance...Set the jackets to the same white...I think skin will be good

Open into bridge and then open in ACR...mask for your faces and all skin, balance skin, set the white on the jackets...play a bit with levels...nothing too tough, the difference seems to be a tungsten cast, and a warm image, while the other is a cold crisp, blue eyed look
 
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Actually here we used to masking. Changing color to white, change overlay and have to use masking to change background.
 
I'm with Tracy on this. By far, the best way is always to do the best job possible at the time you take the photo. Do so, and you reduce the time you need to spend in post processing by an enormous amount, assuming one can do anything useful with the image.

As Tracy suggested, for this image, "doing it right" at the time of exposure means setting the correct color balance, exposure, better lighting (eg, maybe the use of gelled fill flash), etc.

I certainly wouldn't attempt such major color correction on the jpg you posted. One can certainly make it somewhat better, but there's just no way you are going to get really good colors out of an image like this, so it's not worth my time to work on something when I know the end result won't be very good.

However, if you have a raw data file (eg, *.cr2, *.nef, etc.) for the shot, zip the file and post it, and maybe something can be done.

Tom M
 
These are stock images from the Food Channel....The OP didn't shoot these, so that advice to reshoot is.........:banghead:
 
Right you are Mike, haha. I would try to get Gordon Ramsay to do a reshoot, but he's pretty busy. Thanks guys, sounds like it may not be possible without being a photoshop god, but I will mess with some adjustment layers and masks.
 
I would think a duplicate layer in color burn mode may get it similar tone/effect to your picture, just delete(erase) the areas that aren't needed
 
play around with opacity or fill levels should be pretty close, to what you're looking for I just checked
 
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DigitalBum said:
Right you are Mike, haha. I would try to get Gordon Ramsay to do a reshoot, but he's pretty busy. Thanks guys, sounds like it may not be possible without being a photoshop god, but I will mess with some adjustment layers and masks.
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Why Limit Yourself?

If the Web is Your Source for Material? ... Why Not Choose Sources that contain elements of attainability in the Result you are looking for?

Would You take a Bi-Plane and Try to Photoshop it into a Jet Fighter Plane? ...No.

Think about choosing your Photoshop Source Just as wisely for Color Elements as You Would for Direction of Light and Shadow when creating a Composite.

Don't bring the Board a Sow's Ear ...and Walk Away disappointed when no one in their Right Mind would Even Spend the time to try and Turn it into a Silk Purse.

I Hope that Helps?

-Tracy Mapes
 
Why would attainability be a problem with this image, various techniques could get that image where he wants it to be. If someone chooses to use images from google or wherever they found them and they have the ability to do it ,why not? What in the world does a sows ear and a silk purse have to do with web based graphics
 
iDad said:
Why would attainability be a problem with this image, various techniques could get that image where he wants it to be. If someone chooses to use images from google or wherever they found them and they have the ability to do it ,why not? What in the world does a sows ear and a silk purse have to do with web based graphics
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One Will Make You Money.
acemarketingsilkpurse.jpg


The Other Will Not.

pigcloseup1636standalon.jpg
 
Silk purse, Sows ear, are they related to the golden goose?.... I think if either one was to make me money I hope to be be made in Gold bullion form:mrgreen:
 
Op never mentioned money?
Best quality image is always the best way to go.
 
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