Colour Pop

[Kit]

I Love Love Love the colours in Beth Janson's pictures:

http://www.bethjansenphotography.com/index2.php

any ideas on how tom make colours pop like these? The colours seem so saturated but the skin tones still look very natural.

[OsmosisStudios]

Urgh, flash + music... KILL

The skin tones are actually pretty saturated too. Its just in the way it's done.

[Japaslavian]

Everything looks pretty saturated overall.
The skins tones are as well, you just can't really tell because everything is done pretty evenly.
If you took the shots, and partially desaturated everything but the skin, you'd see how saturated it actually is.

[Kit]

o/k so what exactly did she do?
I'm guessing she's working in Lab color and using curves, levels and saturation and maybe contrast. Any ideas?

[Japaslavian]

It's hard to know exactly what she did... If it was easy to figure out, then it wouldn't be special would it?
The best thing to do is to experiment with everything you have in your mental tool box, and see what you come up with. That's one of the best ways to not only (maybe) figure out someone elses' style, but far more importantly, discover your own.

[ocnsprt]

The colors are amazing, I wish I could figure out how this is done, its almost as if the photos glow or something. I hope you dontmind I played with a photo you posted in an earlier thread and tried to recreate that color pop look and glowing photo look, Let me know if this is what your going for and I will be happy to explain the process I used, if not sorry I cant be of more help, hope someone else will get on here and explain to us all what were missing

heres your original..



and here is my best attempt at that effect

[kaypea]

I think it's all done in layers and mask. Those are really great pictures.
Check out http://coffeeteaphotography.blogspot.com/ She has some great actions for photoshop.

[Kit]

Ocnsprt,
I realy like the way the eyes pop in your edit and the skin tone is nice to. Please share your technique.

Kaypea, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

Thanks guys.

[ocnsprt]

Originally Posted by Kit

Ocnsprt,
I realy like the way the eyes pop in your edit and the skin tone is nice to. Please share your technique.

Kaypea, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

Thanks guys.

I tookt he original and created a background copy in the layers pallet, set it to screen in the layer options at the top, then flattened image. This puts a brightened effect over the whole shot. Then I created another layer and selected the saturation brush set to 50% and went over the eyes, mouth and shirt. THen flattened image and thats it. After looking over beths shots, I think the skin is not saturated, cant know for sure since i cant pull them up in ps and play, but they actually look natural to desaturated to me, so in some pictures it may be necessary to put a desaturation layer over the skin and bg to, but I did not with this partcular shot. I am glad you liked it, let me know if you have trouble recreating the effect and I will try to explain better. What program do you edit with??

[paddygirl]

Andrea Joki has great tutorials, found on another forum, that discuss different methods you can use to enhance color in an image.

First, sponging and burning
http://ilovephotography.com/forums/i...owtopic=190466

Secondly (and in my opinion, the most dramatic) luminosity for deep color pop
http://ilovephotography.com/forums/i...owtopic=227126

Finally, color manipulation
http://ilovephotography.com/forums/i...owtopic=247836

To take full advantage of these techinques, you need to have the full version of Photoshop, not Elements (insert *pitty me*). This is just one of the (many) reasons I'm considering make the switch from PSE to CS4.

Anyway, I hope these are helpful to you. They still are for me, even though I'm a PSE6 user.

Eva