How to make these effects in photoshop?

[duvaahall]

I went through a young girl's deviantart account and found some photoshop effects I would really love to do:
First of: how to you make the eyes look this intense:




And secondly, how to make this vintage-y effect?:


Picturecredit: http://ekevdb.deviantart.com/

Thanks in return!

[kencaleno]

To make the eyes that intense-the answer is in the eyes-If you look at the bottom part of the iris you can see the reflector that was used-The best way for me to describe it, is to show the relevance to something you can relate to. You know those, picture on one side-silver foil on the other, that are sold as car windscreen reflectors to keep car cool. Imagine one of those curled into a "U" shape under models chin to bounce light up into the models eyes-If you look in the eyes you can see this. An Irish photographer-Gerry Coe, used to produce ultra high key portraits,with incredible detail in the eyes-and he used a similar reflector for this.

I believe the "vintage" look is done with layers and the eraser tool.

Regards, Ken

Here is one of Gerry Coe's:

[windrider86]

Or if you want to do within your processing image is to take 2 layers. The bottom layer is WAY over sharpened and perhaps boost the saturation. Then on the top layer, carefully erase the eyes.
The other one is also done with layers. Looks as if there were a few texture layers involved. Probably used different opacity levels of either using a mask or erasing. Or, they may have used some texture brushes

[OsmosisStudios]

It's part photography, part photoshop witchcraft.

Part of it is getting the lighting, exposure and technical part of the photograph right. The other part is toying around with sharpening filters and so on in post work.

[Kewish]

Hi Duvaahall,

My photography knowledge really is lower than beginner. That is why I have joined this site. I've just purchased a 50D and am looking to get into photography. PP is where my knowledge lies and am constantly improving on that. Below is a quick tut on how I do eyes.

Pre-Edit Note: Keep your brushes soft.... Important!!

Duplicate your layer.
Select Dodge Tool (Range: Highlights / Exposure about 18%)
With the dodge tool selected go over the iris. It doesn't matter if it looks unnatural at this stage.
Afterwards Select Burn Tool (Range: Midtones / Exposure about 9%)
Make the brush size about the same size as the pupil and lightly burn that. Then decrease the size of your brush and go around the outside of the iris to give it some pop. Also, this will be unnatural looking.
The final step is the beautiful part and so, so easy! All you do know is lower the current layers opacity, the one that you were working on. Usually to about 30% however this is to your personal taste and the effect you are trying to achieve. Don't forget to merge the layers when finished!

I hope this technique works for you.

Regards,
Leigh.

[duvaahall]

Thank you!
You've really been a great help.

[ryandaleySD]

I was reading this forum yesterday and then when I got home tried out the technique of holding a reflector underneth the chin of my daughter. She is really tiny, so it was hard to get a good angle and take the picture, but I really like the results. (plus I have a window of about 5 minutes of her laughing before she gets annoyed with Dad and his camera)

I also went into PS and a dodge at like 25% over her eyes to just brighten up the highlights a little more and make them pop. Might have over done it though....

I also noticed I didnt use the sharpest picture that I took of her, but her eyes were open the biggest in this one.

Thanks for the tips though, I am going to use this technique in the future as well!

[araine]

As a Deviantart user, I know that a lot of these artists use brushes in photoshop. I can nearly gaurantee that the second eye image, the eyelashes are eyelash brushes, same for the vintage/grunge effect.

[jay_soft]

[QUOTE=duvaahall;518104]I went through a young girl's deviantart account and found some photoshop effects I would really love to do:
First of: how to you make the eyes look this intense:
[QUOTE]


An alternative post-processing route, or one which you perhaps use in conjunction with the ways talked about above is by using the unsharp mask.

Select the eye area with the lasso tool.
Copy the selection
Select ‘past into’ from the file or edit menu (I forget which one it’s under)
This will put ‘your eyes’ on a separate layer
Go to unsharp mask
Vary the first setting between 5 – 30%, second between 30 – 100 and keep the threshold at 0.
It’s very important to keep the threshold at zero.

This technique uses actually increases the localised contrast, helping get good definition on the eye lashes and pupils. I’ve even been using this on my happy snap shots and it looks good. The full theory behind this technique is described at ‘http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/

[Pierre81385]

I'm not sure if this is much help, but...

To get the eyes so intense in this photo, I used adjustment layers masked to only affect the eye to apply levels (brightened the highlights), saturation (increased), and contrast (increased) adjustments. I also overlayed a duplicate layer of the eyes with a high pass filter applied to sharpen the details. I then applied liberal amounts of noise reduction in the eye to smooth it out, preserving detail with a layer mask.