photoshop. myspace picture effect?, good lightening, contrast, coloring? Options

[creole]

a while ago, i asked how to get images to look crisp & clear and the good lighting
i've been seeing that ALOT of people use this technique..

i never really managed to master the layering techniques of soft light & screen, lol.

can anyone explain how to do these type of images?
like did you use coloring, brightness & contrast, hue & saturation?







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[Maccabee]

it was probably just the camera and photographer that made those look like that.
photoshop maybe had a small part.

[creole]

it was probably just the camera and photographer that made those look like that.

mm. what kind of camera?
and what do you mean the photographer made the pictures that look like that?

[synatribe]

what about overlay set at 2.5?

[Comptine]

As far as I know, the picture itself has to be of relatively high quality for it to come out like that. The focus and color has to be there to begin with.

[creole]

lol, myspacers are doing the trend.
we need juna to the rescuee

[Maccabee]

mm. what kind of camera?
and what do you mean the photographer made the pictures that look like that?

I dont know if you know anything about lighting but when you are taking pictures there are many settings.
And of course how good the camera is.
You can take a point and shoot camera and expect to get shots like these.

[creole]

the camera must be those strap on, with the big circular lens.

[none345678]

You can recreate a lot (if not all) effects from cameras.

I would think it is overlay set to about 50%, Screen at about 75%, and mybe some blurring on the skin. Those numbers are vary big estaments, but it should be somewhere around there.

[creole]

^ I'll experiment with those settings, thanks!

IS there any coloring donee?

[technicolour]

Professional photographers use professional cameras therefore the pictures are professional and of great quality. The raw file in itself is probably of nice quality- very crisp and clean.

Try doing the overlay stuff as everyone else has suggested, but it might not give the same results. Buttttt...to make the colors more vivid, you can always bump up the saturation.

[lovescream]

Well, to be honest, I think with that image size, the camera itself may or may not have played a role.. because I find that resizing an image greatly will hide the graininess/bluriness or hide the majority of visual flaws in any given picture. o_O Unless the picture quality just sucked MAJOR, MAJOOOOOR ass to begin with, it might be hard to fix.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the basics they did (in photoshop) would be:
- Edit curves (I alwaaaays do this to my photos and the lighting usually improves tis way)
- Selective Colouring
- Contrast/brightness

What I usually do also is create a new gradient map (on a new adjustment layer), make it b&w (so in the preview, the whole image would be black and white) and set that layer to luminosity.

Well, um, I just did a little google search (to see what methods other used) and this one seems to actually make a photo look better, imo. :O
http://joeydehnert.com/2007/05/21/photosho...nal-in-6-steps/

[shakeene]

im not sure what your asking for...a kinda of glowing effect to the skin?
http://www.createblog.com/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=13957

thats a tut, just adjust it to your liking.

[Simba]

naw you can def replicate those in photoshop, they're not that high quality