How would you recreate this effect in CS5?

And the vote for most helpful forum member goes to.......
 
The poster looks a lot like artwork to me you could get a similar-ish look with photoshop but it's not a quick easy job, a lot of burning and dodging and something like posterize to limit the tones might be a starting point.
 
Pookeyhead said:
And the vote for most helpful forum member goes to.......
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Why thank you


Actually it is quite easy, in ACR, play with the vibrance and clarity sliders and the noise sliders to soften the edges to create the sketch look, open into PS, add a coloured texture layer - adjust colours - change blend mode to suit the style. Add a vignette.

More often than not, this type of art is a trial and error process. If you work in layers, it is easier to add and subtract to create 'your look'

Once you get an understanding of how you want it to look, create an action for it with open layers for fine tuning.

There are loads of vids on you tube on the method.
 
I'd say it's also a heavily composited image too... and the orginal shot would have been shot with sympathetic lighting. You can't just apply any effect you want to any photo. It's like all the people who tried to copy those awful Greenberg images and never got right because a lot of what she did was lighting it sympathetically in the first place.
 
Pookeyhead said:
I'd say it's also a heavily composited image too... and the orginal shot would have been shot with sympathetic lighting. You can't just apply any effect you want to any photo. It's like all the people who tried to copy those awful Greenberg images and never got right because a lot of what she did was lighting it sympathetically in the first place.
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or the Dave on the Hill method - or any type of HDR come to think of it! That is why I said it is trial an error especially when trying to recreate/copy!
 
It does have a whiff of Dave Hill about it... a bit grungier though.
 
tiler65 said:
Why thank you


Actually it is quite easy, in ACR, play with the vibrance and clarity sliders and the noise sliders to soften the edges to create the sketch look, open into PS, add a coloured texture layer - adjust colours - change blend mode to suit the style. Add a vignette.

More often than not, this type of art is a trial and error process. If you work in layers, it is easier to add and subtract to create 'your look'

Once you get an understanding of how you want it to look, create an action for it with open layers for fine tuning.

There are loads of vids on you tube on the method.
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That isn't just clarity noise and viberance.
 
More design than photography, I'd have though. The building, fence and figure from separate shots, effects added on top. And the figure may be drawn, not photo'd. Either that or a summer's evening in Shepton Mallet.
 
Thanks, all. I'll have a play around. I have a project in mind.
 
Well, kind of got there.

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