Can someone help me to achieve this effect?

[nikeskate875]

Hi everyone,

So I've been looking for a tutorial or technique to acheive an effect like this

Off Camera Flash by JVS » JVS Techniques - Totally Rad! actions before & after
{37/365} Blue on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm looking to get that cold tone effect (forget the texture in the photo) and cannot find it anywhere. That person has a tutorial on there but its only with that set of actions.

I've tried to get this myself and it just turned out to be horrible

If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated

[Murtasma]

What software are you using?

[nikeskate875]

photoshop cs3

[FormElement]

I got pretty close with two high pass filters and a saturation adjustment layer. There's also a texture filter in the background that I did not bother to mess with.

Dup your basic (background) layer.
Change layer 1 to hard light
run a high pass filter at ~15-10% of the image pixel width (I think 400px wide used a 40px filter for me) (use a smart layer to enable changes later to adjust the effect!)
duplicate your bkgd layer again, change layer 2 to color dodge, high pass again (smaller by about 50%), desaturate.
hide layer 2. command/control click on your RGB channel (creates a luminance selection)
click on layer 2, show it, click on the "add mask" button or add a mask via the menus. click on your mask. run a gaussian blur (about 25% smaller again).
add a saturation layer, select the blue in the jacket with the dropper, bump the saturation of the blue up.
add a saturation layer, select the skin with the dropper, bump the saturation of the yellow/orange down.

play with it from there...you will want to run a smart blur or surface blur on the face, and burn in the hat and white areas to bring out the textures. Mostly it's just desaturating the warm colors, saturating the cold ,and increasing the global contrast a bit.

If you need more than this, well, you'll want to get familiar with blending modes and luminance masks. Honestly I just hacked together a few techniques I've learned here online to see how they affected each other.

[Raigoki]

i think it's somewhat close to HDR + david hill effect..

[nikeskate875]

Originally Posted by FormElement

I got pretty close with two high pass filters and a saturation adjustment layer. There's also a texture filter in the background that I did not bother to mess with.

Dup your basic (background) layer.
Change layer 1 to hard light
run a high pass filter at ~15-10% of the image pixel width (I think 400px wide used a 40px filter for me) (use a smart layer to enable changes later to adjust the effect!)
duplicate your bkgd layer again, change layer 2 to color dodge, high pass again (smaller by about 50%), desaturate.
hide layer 2. command/control click on your RGB channel (creates a luminance selection)
click on layer 2, show it, click on the "add mask" button or add a mask via the menus. click on your mask. run a gaussian blur (about 25% smaller again).
add a saturation layer, select the blue in the jacket with the dropper, bump the saturation of the blue up.
add a saturation layer, select the skin with the dropper, bump the saturation of the yellow/orange down.

play with it from there...you will want to run a smart blur or surface blur on the face, and burn in the hat and white areas to bring out the textures. Mostly it's just desaturating the warm colors, saturating the cold ,and increasing the global contrast a bit.

If you need more than this, well, you'll want to get familiar with blending modes and luminance masks. Honestly I just hacked together a few techniques I've learned here online to see how they affected each other.

Okay cool thank you, I will deff try this out.

Yea I'm not gunna mess with a texture either, I'm just trying to get the cold tone effect thats all

Thanks for your help!

[nikeskate875]

also if anyone else knows anyway to do this cold tone effect I'd love to hear more suggestions

[Murtasma]

Try making a new selective color adjustment layer. Select the color blue and add white in by changing the lightness slider I believe. You may have to try experimenting with changing the hue and saturation or color balance of the blue to get it looking just right. You can then duplicate your background layer and set the duplicated layer to color dodge and drop the opacity down at lot then use masking where the effect is not wanted.

[Sergio L.A.]

Originally Posted by nikeskate875

Hi everyone,

So I've been looking for a tutorial or technique to acheive an effect like this

Off Camera Flash by JVS » JVS Techniques - Totally Rad! actions before & after
{37/365} Blue on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm looking to get that cold tone effect (forget the texture in the photo) and cannot find it anywhere. That person has a tutorial on there but its only with that set of actions.

I've tried to get this myself and it just turned out to be horrible

If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated

Hi there, I am Sergio the one on your second sample with the cold-blue effect. I originally made this effect using Adobe Lightroom, but it can be achieve using Photoshop too. Here it's a quick video tutorial of how to re-create this effect, just remember that it's a quick way and witj more time can be improve.

Cold & Blue effect using Photoshop CS3 from Sergio Escobar on Vimeo.

Direct link to Vimeo
or
Direct link to YouTube

I hope it help and you like it.

Sergio

[nikeskate875]

Originally Posted by Sergio L.A.

Hi there, I am Sergio the one on your second sample with the cold-blue effect. I originally made this effect using Adobe Lightroom, but it can be achieve using Photoshop too. Here it's a quick video tutorial of how to re-create this effect, just remember that it's a quick way and witj more time can be improve.

Cold & Blue effect using Photoshop CS3 from Sergio Escobar on Vimeo.

Direct link to Vimeo
or
Direct link to YouTube

I hope it help and you like it.

Sergio

Sergio you rock! Thank you so much for posting that video