Crack The Code...

[ukanfoff]

FOR THOSE WHO LIKE OTHER PHOTOGS WORK BUT DONT HOW TO ACHIEVE THIER EDITING STYLE, and u cant seem to pin it. let others try...



well today ive seen this style...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/ukanfoff/l_64d7a27e0a89f68e40cf380ee7f1850c.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/ukanfoff/l_3201229db65a82f19ba607d59e92afd2.jpg

gave it my shot..
used dust n scratches and usm on it.. back n forth couple times..

till i got this... cant get the smoothness down.. anyone got some input on that?

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/ukanfoff/gary-coleman.jpg

[MLlanes]

somethin like this?

i duplicated the layer, then manually used the blur tool at 50% strength and blured the skin and clothes, then lowered the opacity until it looked good.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a271/mikellanes/test1.jpg

[ukanfoff]

thats pretty good.

[ukanfoff]

Anyone know how to get rich colors such as these?
It just left me at a stump. I asked the photographer who taken these and he said it was just messing with the blue channel... but i really doubt it.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/ukanfoff/87991068aQejct2t50.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/ukanfoff/92409219RXHNTI1qj09.jpg

[Mr. Mu]

ukanfoff - on your first entries. These look like someone also messed around a bit with HDR software. On the woman, a lot of work seems to have been put into smoothing her skin tones down, additionally.

All in all, it seems to be a variant of "draganizing" - so called after this photog (http://andrzejdragan.com/)

There is a YT video for this effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyLBw6xDjs

One of the steps involved (and your photog seems to have done this, too, according to what he told you) is to convert to black and white using only the blue channel, autostretch it and add the other channels back in later on.

[Morbid]

On the first ones, to me it looks like surface blur, high-pass sharpening at a high radius low amount, and then some painting with light (doging and burning on a separate layer).

But theres not just a set reciepe to get those results, lighting and stuff plays a big part too.

My shot:

[stine]

hey there! i think the blue channel really has a high impact on this photo, so i would believe that. especially when considering a lot of masking to define which areas will be effected. rich colors/ more contrast can also be achieved by duplicating all the layers into one (ctrl+alt+shift+e) and then putting this layer on blend mode "soft light". then it's a lot about masking again.
probably you already knew this, but i though i'd post it anyway. :)