My Portrait Technique

[platscha]

Love your work, very impressive but does not seem at all like dragan effects, I think you have your original effect and it serves your work well.

 

[Lance C]

thank you for the tutorial I will have to try some of this.

 

[George Burke]

Thanks for the info. I'll have to try it.
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George Burke

 

[CristianLK]

Cool technique, thanks a lot for sharing it.

Now that I read your explanation and watch the photos carefully, I can see that the patterns of light is what makes the pictures special. Didn't know what it was before.

 

[Swan83]

The first one is my Illustrated Look, the second is Photomatix, and
the third is yours.

How do you use Photomatix when you only have one exposure JPG?

Kristian Svane

 

[Isca]

one more thing to learn............

Thanks for sharing Ray.

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http://www.pbase.com/garethc/good_stuff

 

[Dixter]

How do you use Photomatix when you only have one exposure JPG?

Kristian Svane

Photomatix is actually two programs... one is a optimized HDR program that runs on its own, this is the program that requires more than one exposure.

The other program is a photoshop plug-in that is used for color toning.
It only needs one exposure..

The color tone plug-in is the program they are working with here....

The two programs can be purchased seperate or bundled together...
Its a nice program to play with...

I'm running the beta version and at times it still produces color artifacts...

when it does I noticed I can pull most of it back if I adjust the sliders around to get some of it out... but you still need to macro inspect the
results to minimize the issue.

 

[Stuart Allen]

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Stuart Allen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/srallen/
http://www.srallen.com/

 

[Guillermo Shashte]

Thanks
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G. Shashte

 

[cspringer]

The first one is my Illustrated Look, the second is Photomatix, and
the third is yours.

Thanks for the explaination.
I want to tell you, that I always admire you.
I have been watching your portraits for about 4 months,
and I collected them, and make a folder with your name.
Thanks and regards for enlighten me.

Rusmin

 

[KTG]

I think this technique works for some and not for others. The girl in the aquamaarine shirt is wonderful. This really works; so too with some of the others. The girl in the red shirt looks like she has dirt on her face. I don't think that is a lighting issue, but in post-processing. I don't think it works in that case.
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[Bollan]

Stunning portraits and thanks for a great tutorial!!

 

[Switch78]

Beautiful

 

[resident]

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badui bourizk

 

[KevinGa]

I just read a link to this older thread and found it to be very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Kevin

 

[EPP]

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[Lance C]

Ray,in your stpes to create this :

Go to your layers palette and change the blend to Soft Light. Go to the Layers tab on the top of the screen (under the words Adobe Photoshop) click it and scroll down to Layer Mask, click it and finally click on Reveal All for the mask.

My reveal all button is greyed?

did I do a step out of order?

1 duped layer
2 high pass filter
3 invert
4 reveal all (what is this suppose to do)

 

[Hung Pham]

this is great.

 

[IA123]

Hi and thank you very much for all your help and information on your technique.

Great work.

IA

 

[TomHawk]

It works so well for the skin. Thank Ray for the technique, and thank people who dig out the link from Aug.
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