Can some one tell me how this guy gets these vivid colors, I can not get anywhere close to this using PS
is he using some other software to get to this level of image quality? http://i.pbase.com/o6/74/450574/1/87148278.AlqLdGnD.06.jpg
r.gil wrote:
Can some one tell me how this guy gets these vivid colors....
Not to be snide, but by the school of hard knocks. Know your tools, read the tutorials, test new techniques, and never stop trying.
I first learned Photoshop in 1992. It took about 50 hours just to figure it out. Then it took about 500 hours to get really good at it. And over 16 years later, I still invest time each month learning new techniques.
BTW, is that image posted with the creators permission? After all, this is a photography forum, so we owe it to ourselves to be highly aware of intellectual property rights.
One very quick way is to do your Photoshop processing in LAB color space. Here is a summary of what you need to do ... but, look for longer tutorials on the internet.
www.kelbytraining.com/ & www.lynda.com
Both sites can teach you the technique. But, here it is.
1. Switch to LAB color.
2. Bring up a curves adjustment layer.
3. On both your A and B channels, move the curve in an equal distance from the upper right and lower left corners. The distance in will intensify the effect.
You may need to use a mask to protect some parts of the image (skin possibly). That will give you the colors. It won't give you all the retouching.
UCSB wrote:
One very quick way is to do your Photoshop processing in LAB color space. Here is a summary of what you need to do ... but, look for longer tutorials on the internet.
www.kelbytraining.com/ & www.lynda.com
Both sites can teach you the technique. But, here it is.
1. Switch to LAB color.
2. Bring up a curves adjustment layer.
3. On both your A and B channels, move the curve in an equal distance from the upper right and lower left corners. The distance in will intensify the effect.
You may need to use a mask to protect some parts of the image (skin possibly). That will give you the colors. It won't give you all the retouching.
I just bought Dan Margulis book on L.A.B., very interesting PP indeed. I tried a few of his suggestion so far and have been somewhat impressed. Reading around I have noticed that not everyone agrees with his ideas about L.A.B. but I have a few of Katrin Eisman's books also and she has always used L.A.B. quite a bit in her work and books.
That image above is very well done, but there is some good gear and lighting being used there as well as the PP. The better we use our equipment, the less PP we need to do.
One can only guess of course but that's what it looks like to me. If you wanna know how he processed it just ask him. He's using CS2 on a Mac BTW, or so says the EXIF:
Camera-Specific Properties:
Equipment Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D2X
Camera Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
Maximum Lens Aperture: f/2.8
Sensing Method: One-Chip Color Area
Focal Length (35mm Equiv): 66 mm
You could give Tony Kuyper's Saturation Masks a try. It gives a lot of control bringing up saturation without blowing the already saturated colors. I have found it to be very helpful on some images. You can also rescue some of the over saturation in some areas if you need to with certain images.
You do have to load a feature from your Photoshop disk, at least I did with CS2 but it is all worth the little bit of effort. He has some other valuable tutorials that make working with various tones in an image very precise. I use the midtone luminosity masks on most every image and then target other tones when need be.
