Hi! I hope this is the right forum and that it is okay for me to ask this question here. My 18-year-old son (who is just now showing a great interest in photography and photoshop-to my great surprise and joy) found this photo on a french website. He absolutely loves it.
We would love to know how to recreate this stylized look, especially the texture and smoothness of her skin and the crispness of her juxtaposed to the blurred softened background. We're interested in how to recreate the lighting. Does it look like most of this is done in photoshop or camera settings or combination of both?
I'm so thrilled that he is (finally) showing an interest in something that I have loved all my life. He has researched and hasn't been able to find tutorials to help him create this look. He is also interested in creating a kind of "cartoon" look to photos as well.
This is my first post (I think). I signed up in December 2007, but have only lurked occasionally. I want to say hello to everyone. This is a great site and thanks in advance for any and all help and advice you can give us.
Here is the photo just above this post. I guess I don't know how to get the photo in my first post. Sorry. I'm not a forum newbie but just learning my way around this site. Be gentle.
Go here http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm and surf around. There all kinds of actions especially the cartoon on and other that'll get you close I'm sure.
Thank you everyone for your help and comments. I so much appreciate them.
jerryrock, does it violate the rules to post a link to the photo as I did in the first post?
The actual myspace website where the photo exists has some beautiful photos, however there are nudes and some controversial shots to which I did not feel comfortable linking. We actually emailed the photographer first, however his website is in french and we have not heard back from him.
I will take down the photo, but I will leave the link to the individual photo which is on a page by itself if that is not against forum rules.
As you can see, I am new to this site and I am sorry for the mistake. But thanks so much to everyone else who were so very nice and helpful.
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Many ways to get this effect, but it does look like a touch of Lucis was used. The filter's way too expensive for me, so I would use Mr. Contrast (or ACE; a GIMP plugin) blend and some cleaning to get something similar.
Well I for one have to say that the style in question looks terrible. I would guess a 12-yr-old with a point-and-shoot camera and 2 hours of Photoshop lessons could reproduce it. This is the digital equivalent of a charcoal rubbing. It takes very little creativity and effort to reproduce.
My advice is to have your son browse the photography forums of this site and get a taste of real talent from behind the lens, instead of that "push-a-button-in-Photoshop-and-call-it-art" nonsense you linked to. (sorry) The photogs on this site produce beautiful images straight from the camera and would be more then willing to answer questions and give helpful advice on how to do the same.
Looks to me like a USM layer with a ridculously high radius, masked. You can get similar effect by applying noise ninja with all the sliders set to full and applied several times.
