That Girl is stunning! Sure is one lucky guy marrying her!
The first shot is my favourite, followed closely by #3 and #5, although in shot 1 I would have probably toned down the gown using masking as it is very overexposed.
cwphotos wrote:
Ok here is mine. My friends wedding photog did a suck tastic job on thier pics a year ago and I recently volunteered to help them restore some memories.
Here're my attempts at PP on the photos (I hope you don't mind me practicing with them--I'll take them down if so.)
Thanks a lot for the tip of CTRL + J, instead of using both the steps I listed. I didn't know that was possible. I'll give it a try.
Also, didn't know about dragging of layers as well. I am very hesitant to use layers. They scare me !! I know I "need" to get comfortable with them. Just can't seem to understand the concept.
Just want to share this information. I was looking for somebody to design my wedding books And I stumbled in to this lab's website (www.jrkdigital.com). They can just design or design and print or design, print and bind. They use a service called netalbumdesigner. Just being curious I was looking to know more about this service with no luck. If anyone know about them please share. I saw them on other labs website as well. So far I am happy with them. For designing they charge $250 for 150 images.If you print there they will take off $100.
Give it a try.
Ok after a request I thought Id share my technique.
Find a suitable image with warm soft tones. This technique doesnt work aswell with harsh lighting and high contrast.
Now you need 2 lots of software one being photoshop and the other being Virtual Photographer.
Step One: Duplicate your image in PS
Step two: Select the top layer and open Virtual Photographer.
Step three: Click the box to turn photographic style on and tick the effect and B/W boxes.
Step four: In the effect drop down menu choose 'colorize'
Step five: In the B/W drop down menu choose 'aged'
Step six: Tick the red picker and adjust the brightness and contrast using the sliders under film type. Then click process
Step seven: Now adjust opacity on the top layer so you start to see the colour layer coming through. Now change the blend mode to hard light/soft light or overlay depending on the strenght of the effect you want.
Step eight: Now make the bottom layer active and decrease saturation until happy.
Step Nine: Add a vignette to emphasize the model and thats the job done.
Hope this helps anyone and put up your before and after for us to see.
It was a lot of work, but this should print as big as they want, and it will look good.
Combination of a vignette using multiply layer mode, Virtual Photographer on Radiant selectively applied, clone and paint tools.
This thread is so helpful, you cannot even imagine the quanitity of information that I have already written down from it! Great for wedding photography junkies like me. Thanks so much! Keep it coming.
I want to thank everyone for sharing here. There is soooooo much useful information within this threads pages.
Hopefully we can see an important thread like this one saved for all members of FM to view and learn from. A sticky for the thread is a idea, but what about if we saved this into a PP Tips & Tricks forum
