Effect Challenge - Who can help create this effect?

[i_am_beam]

I have been trying and trying to create this effect on my pictures using photoshop. I finally found a picture on-line that illustrates what I'm going for. Is there anyone out there that can tell me how to do this using photoshop. The challenge has been made, who's up for it?

[SusanH1970]

This by no means is a perfect replica, but I thought it would be fun to try. If I took more time it probably would have been more accurate - this took me about two minutes. I dodged and burned too heavily in my version (it was tricky going back and forth between mine and the original, my eyes were going wonky on me LOL).

Opened in CS2. Duplicated the layer, did a color balance adjustment of adding cyan, green and blue. Bumped the contrast in curves, burned the edges and they guy, and dodged the area behind him to brighten it. It's still off but you get the idea for a start, I'm sure there are lots of other ways to do this.

[i_am_beam]

Awesome, thanks. I'll have to try this out.

[zappo]

Well I was curious and tried the whole thing in Lightroom, result and preset are attached. The picture has quite a large amount of blur attached to it, this cannot be done in LR but is quite simple in PS. To finish this, duplicate layer in PS, add gaussian blur, set layer to soft light.

[SusanH1970]

Nice work, Zappo.

[zappo]

Thanks a lot! The result still looks a little bit different, the blacks are way more edgy and the green just isn't right but I guess this is close enough as a starting point.

[zona5101]

you could also look for "night vision" effects as there are PS and LR settings for simulating the look of NVGs

[i_am_beam]

Thanks Zappo. I think I actually like what you did better than the effect in my post. Did you do anything different than what was listed above? Any secrets?

[zappo]

No I included everything in the preset. So just download, install and get it on. You can tweak this furthermore in LR with localized corrections but the preset includes everything I have done to the edited picture I posted.

[edbayani]

duplicated layer, hue and saturation, checked colorize, to produce cyan color. added layer, blending mode set to color dodge and painted with white, soft brush, 10% opacity for the slight rays, merged both layers, used layer mask to brush the man away to reveal dark man beneath. burned the corners with soft brush.