Author Topic: photoshoppers/photographers (Read 3964 times)

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 09:46:23 PM

how do you make existing pictures look like this:

seriously that looks awesome.

trying to get that effect with these:

messed around in p-shop but can't get it

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 09:59:35 PM

The last one is so awesome with the visor reflection. I want to at least adjust pictures to make it look like these.

AzCat · September 30, 2007, 10:18:51 PM

Quick & dirty: cut the brightness, up the contrast, and maybe up the saturation just a bit as necessary if the contrast doesn't make the colors pop enough to suit you.

ECN · September 30, 2007, 10:24:05 PM

true. was just gonna say that.

i did this Q&D in 60 seconds. with time...it can look nice. my way all depends on what color you want to remove.

once this is set..is when i like to mess with saturation..and contrast.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 10:26:11 PM

I dunno, the color just pops out in the husker pics. It just doesn't look real, which looks so cool.

ECN · September 30, 2007, 10:28:15 PM

close up shots will like that. plus...red is excellent for this.

ill do one of jarsh in purp.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 10:40:17 PM

Quote from: El Chupa Nibre on September 30, 2007, 10:28:15 PM

close up shots will like that. plus...red is excellent for this.

ill do one of jarsh in purp.

yea, but check out the grass and the sky. even their skin shows a lot of color (even though black is absence of color LOL!!!11)

Skycat · September 30, 2007, 10:44:58 PM

So here's my quick try:

I did pretty much what's been said, but used the curves tool to adjust contrast, instead of a contrast slider.

I also added a touch of edge sharpening to make the whole thing pop a little more. Not great, but you get what you pay for.

chum1 · September 30, 2007, 10:49:06 PM

Notice how everything in the background of the NU pics is blurred. Only the player is in sharp focus. That's the key.

Skycat · September 30, 2007, 10:54:02 PM

Quote from: chum1 (Premium Edition) on September 30, 2007, 10:49:06 PM

Notice how everything in the background of the NU pics is blurred. Only the player is in sharp focus. That's the key.

Not really true of the first one.

ECN · September 30, 2007, 10:54:37 PM

i had this one blurred. red is key. blur is too...

i dont think jarsh is black enough.

ECN · September 30, 2007, 10:56:15 PM

im telling you..

they desaturate/ maybe a duotone...and then go back in over the red and either overlay or some other crap.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 10:58:48 PM

Quote from: El Chupa Nibre on September 30, 2007, 10:54:37 PM

i had this one blurred. red is key. blur is too...

i dont think jarsh is black enough.

damn that's pretty close

chum1 · September 30, 2007, 11:00:19 PM

Quote from: Skycat on September 30, 2007, 10:54:02 PM

Quote from: chum1 (Premium Edition) on September 30, 2007, 10:49:06 PM
Notice how everything in the background of the NU pics is blurred. Only the player is in sharp focus. That's the key.

Not really true of the first one.

Yeah, I got caught up on those last ones and forgot about the first two. It's gotta be more than just the red, though. We should be able to get a fairly close approximation with purple.

ECN · September 30, 2007, 11:01:00 PM

with more time, it can be prefected.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 11:03:39 PM

the #30 nubb pic is just so sick.

i didn't think these were real at first, honestly.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 11:06:16 PM

i want to get this down, next year i want to go to the open practices and get nubb-style spring practice pics.

ECN · September 30, 2007, 11:07:52 PM

yeah. its the best.

they combined a few filters ( on top of the other stuff) to make it look borderline illustration photo.

we'll get it down.

AzCat · September 30, 2007, 11:07:58 PM

Quote from: El Chupa Nibre on September 30, 2007, 10:56:15 PM

im telling you..

they desaturate/ maybe a duotone...and then go back in over the red and either overlay or some other crap.

Stunner - try masking off your foreground object then *really* pulling down the brightness and *really* upping the contrast; if you're using the newest Photoshop try setting the brightness/contrast controls to the old style, they'll give you much "harder" results.

They also used a mask on the two players in the foreground, the halo is pretty sloppy. The grass & sky colors are too saturated to be natural too so I'd imagine the worked the whole shot over then masked off the players and really dialed in the colors there. They might even have masked the jerseys off separately and upped the saturation on them even more. Those sorts of multiple passes will give you that kind of unnatural result without making the whole background look garish.

Skycat · September 30, 2007, 11:10:38 PM

I reposted mine.

The road uni's aren't the best for this.

This really isn't my bag, ECN will get this nailed pretty quick I think.

I really do think that they're using a pretty healthy USM mask over the subjects.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 11:13:48 PM

Quote from: Skycat on September 30, 2007, 11:10:38 PM

I reposted mine.

The road uni's aren't the best for this.

This really isn't my bag, ECN will get this nailed pretty quick I think.

I really do think that they're using a pretty healthy USM mask over the subjects.

that's pretty good though. want to work on it but doing hw

AzCat · September 30, 2007, 11:14:50 PM

Here's a quickie, did it in Irfanview in less time than it takes Photoshop to load on this machine.

Original:

Gamma: original 1.00, reduced to 0.72
Contrast: original 0, increased to 28
Saturation: original 0, increased to 41

There's too much contrast and color in the background though, it distracts you from the players in the foreground. I'd have to go into Photoshop & mask the players off to fix it but you get the idea.

Here's another with a similar gamma change but doubling down on the contrast & saturation changes:

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 11:19:03 PM

I'm assuming that a higher resolution camera would help too. Obviously these pictures were already retouched. There's a lot more texture in their arms in the Nubb pics.

Would like to show off LaMark's guns

even though that didn't help the nubbs at all this year

AzCat · September 30, 2007, 11:26:09 PM

Quote from: ksuno1stunner on September 30, 2007, 11:19:03 PM

I'm assuming that a higher resolution camera would help too. Obviously these pictures were already retouched. There's a lot more texture in their arms in the Nubb pics.

Likely as not that's just a side effect of adding extreme amounts of contrast.

ksuno1stunner · September 30, 2007, 11:27:05 PM

This might have been done by a nubb photographer, so it does seem like the roadies don't get much better than that, although that pic looks more real than the other nubb pics.

Skycat · September 30, 2007, 11:36:08 PM

They haven't used the same post processing treatment on the pic with our roadies.

And it's not so much the resolution of the camera, but working with original full resolution files could make quite a bit of difference. And if they were RAW...

Whatever you do, I think you'll want to selectively saturate/desaturate:

orig: