Rarindra Effect... help please!

[Raigoki]

Good Day everyone...

I'm quite interested to know how to post-process a picture that would look like Rarindra photos... i'm trying to create that with one of my photos. but i have no luck on that. I'm using photoshop btw.

thanks in advance!

[dcclark]

That's an effect I haven't heard of -- got any examples you could link us to?

[tjphoto]

I believe the rarindra Indonesian Photographer, Rarindra Prakarsa, The effect seems to be of sunlight? You can create this many ways with either photoshop or gimp or take a photo with the sun shining.I got my information from google.

[LoveDSLR]

The famous 'Rarindra Style workflow' or 'Rarindra Prakarsa effect'. He is a professional Graphics Designer and a Photoshop expert. He uses as many as 30 layers in a photo (hearsay).

You can check out his awesome work at http://photo.net/photos/rarindra.

Reverse engineering attempts of his workflow:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=24971754
http://digitalphotographer.com.ph/fo...ad.php?t=16300

[SNOOPY]

how beautiful!!!

[Raigoki]

yes... that the one i'm trying to do... i did some googling and i came with this result...

(from: kulyadi girish pai)

1) If you're converting from RAW, choose a warm toned WB before heading into Photoshop.
2) Use your favorite selection method to select your subjects, and save your selection to be used later. With the figures selected, make a new levels adjustment layer. don't adjust it-just click OK, then switch the blend mode to soft light, and lower the opacity to 50%
3) Make a new solid color fill layer. Choose Color: None, and click OK. In the color-chooser, fill in the values R84, G66, B4. Click OK, then switch the blend mode to Hue.
4) Make a selective color adjustment layer. Choose Colors: Neutrals, and set yellow at 39% and cyan to -8%.
5) Make a new color balance adjustment layer. Set midtones to 0 -7 and -13. Then select the highlights and set them to 0, 0, and -3.
6) Make another levels adjustment layer. choose the blue channel, and change the output level to 200 from 255.
7) Make a new blank layer and load the selections of your figures. Fill the selections with black, change the blend mode to Coor, and dial your opacity down to 50%. This will let your figures pop out from the golden background.
8) If the intensity of the gold tone is overpowering, just lower the opacity of your adjustment layers until your picture seems natural enough.


but as a newbie in photoshop, i can't seem to understand some of this... would anyone care to elaborate?

[SNOOPY]

I certainly cant, but i WOULD love to see your finished product. Good luck.

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by Raigoki

but as a newbie in photoshop, i can't seem to understand some of this... would anyone care to elaborate?

Try the one from DPReview first before what you have described from 'Digital Photographer Philippine' forum.

[Raigoki]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

Try the one from DPReview first before what you have described from 'Digital Photographer Philippine' forum.

you're right... the tutorials from DPP only sets the ambience of the picture... not the light...(sorry, i have tried it before i saw your post... ) thanks for the tip!

[Raigoki]

thank you for sharing the dpreview site... i did some post processing a while ago, its not perfect cause i just want to know the process. thank you so much... here's the before and after post processing photos... (even though the man looks like he's been pasted on the scene... hehe!)

before


after