How to accomplish this sort of color correction

lhmaloney

lhmaloney

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I noticed this magazine called show magazine. It's a swimsuit magazine. What I like is the type of oversaturated color correction that they used for the pictures. Anyone with any ideas on how they're enhancing this look in photoshop. I know in the raw pictures they have lighting makeup etc, but I also know they enhance in photoshop

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Thank you for the pics .
What I usually do is

In PS

First I do some retouching , clonestamp, blur , airbrushing. These axemples got alot airbrushing going on .

add these as an adjustment layer :
- Hue/sat /Lightness
- levels contrast
- Curves
- optional and then some photofilter for color temp.

Again many thanks you just made my Sundaymorning !
 
Everts said:
Thank you for the pics .
What I usually do is

In PS

First I do some retouching , clonestamp, blur , airbrushing. These axemples got alot airbrushing going on .

add these as an adjustment layer :
- Hue/sat /Lightness
- levels contrast
- Curves
- optional and then some photofilter for color temp.

Again many thanks you just made my Sundaymorning !
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LOL, no problem could have found alot more but I didn't wanna be disrespectful to any of the users any how thanks for the tut, I'll try it and see what happens
 
some tips

some tips

like you said the lighting and exposure will have a lot to do with it. if you use a photo that's too muddy/dark or on the other hand too washed out you won't be able to achieve this effect.

however if you do have a nice photo to start with you can bump up the colors by doing some of these things:

1) in levels you can push the white point slider (on the right hand side) towards the center - this will brighten up the brights and will brighten up the image overall.

2) in hue/ saturation bump up the saturation.

before you make any changes you should first balance the colors. also, when you apply these changes, always use a correction layer. this way you can mask out the changes from certain parts of the image. for example, you may want to brighten the image only in one area because if you brighten the whole image, white/ light-colored objects will wash out/ lose detail.
 
I'm glad to see people are saying to make adjustments as layers. All too often I see Ps users making direct changes to their layers and it makes me cringe. Now, I realize there is a time and place to do so, but I never advise getting into that habit.

How are they turning out, lhmaloney? Let's see how these tutorials have served you.

It is all in the airbrushing and lighting, my man. No doubt about it there.

Kyle
 
The two people I work with that use PS have all the effects in the layer. I just started in PS, and they've been using it for years, so I can't very well try and talk them out of it. I just stumbled into that way. What makes one way better than the other?
 
Hawk Teflon said:
The two people I work with that use PS have all the effects in the layer. I just started in PS, and they've been using it for years, so I can't very well try and talk them out of it. I just stumbled into that way. What makes one way better than the other?
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One of the first "rules" of PS is that there is no on way to do anything. It's all a matter of workflow, and even more, what the output medium is.

That said, one of the most predominant and unavoidable problems when working is Destructive Editing, ie applying an effect or filter to a layer. Once done, the only way to undo it is to go back in the history pallet. Problem with that is all the work after is lost.

That's one of the reasons I stress using Adjustment layers, rather than the Image>Adjustments> tweaks (when available). It used to be you either save multiple versions of your document (which I still do to speed up things when the amount of layers begins to stack up), or keep a backup Layer Set with the copies of all important layers before effects were applied. This causes your file size to skyrocket, but that was the only way. With Smart Filters however, you can apply an effect and NOT have it be destructive, and even have a Layer Mask. There is a bit of a "render hit", but depending on the document and circumstances, that is more than acceptable. If you want to change the amount of say a Blur, you just open it back up and change it. Just like Editors and compositors such as FCP. They can manage it, because they are only ever showing relatively small frame sizes.
 
yea..to do that you have to cut out the subject(the person) and clean her up a little bit by doing some light airbrushing and fixing any blemishes then you would Level everything and a little bit of color balance then im assuming brightness/contrast and curves to finish it all off..its not rocket science...but it all has to start with a good picture..good camera..good lighting..
 
I do it all completely the way I am not supposed to. Directly on base layers, multiple adjustments, you name it. Been doing this for 12 years. Why? Speed. Too many layers slows everything down too much.

I save multiple versions along the way. If I need to go back, I don't mind backtracking a little bit if there is a problem. I just pull up a previous version. I also always keep a virgin copy of the original.

Also too many layers becomes confusing after a while, no matter how well they are labeled. Uh oh there I go clone stamping, but nothing is happening, no wait which layer is that part of the image on? Etc.

As a pro stills guy, sometimes I have to deliver a ton of retouched images with only a single workday turnaround. The post budget can provide up to 30% more income, but I don't want to spend my life in front of the computer either.

Anyone who has every had a computer crash knows what that can do to a multiple layer image. You could lose it all, it can even disappear. Saving after a certain number of actions with so many layers becomes too time intensive and too heavy. But I always have backups. This is why I prefer to save a lightweight copy every once in a while along the way. I just keep moving on, even with destructive actions. However, in order to work this way you have to confidence in what you do, and be willing to commit.

There is no right way to do it.
 
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