What is this technique?

[Digifrog]

And how does one go about achieving it? I know it's duotone of sorts but the images aren't strictly monochrome. Can anyone shed any more specific light. Any links to info or tutorials would be great.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggigapix/5345898641/in/photostream
Gigapix

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilovelotsofpizza/5414837517/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilovelotsofpizza/5380481608/
Dinky Do's

I have CS3, and various plugins.

Thank you.

Scott

 

[On the Huh]

They do look nice. A lot of photographers buy pre-made actions or pre-sets for LR.
The best are normally quite expensive and you still need to learn to tweak and or combine them in some cases. Kubota or Totally Rad will probaby have something that can achieve this. Of course it will be nice if some one came on here and give us a tutorial how to create this effect ourselves.

 

[Digifrog]

They do look nice. A lot of photographers buy pre-made actions or pre-sets for LR.
The best are normally quite expensive and you still need to learn to tweak and or combine them in some cases. Kubota or Totally Rad will probaby have something that can achieve this. Of course it will be nice if some one came on here and give us a tutorial how to create this effect ourselves.

Yeah. I can get close with Nik Silver Efex on a duplicated layer then reduce the opacity of that layer but it isn't the same, and I doubt the correct process.

 

[PhotoshopEditer]

This is a popular technique especially for portrait photography. I think it it's just a big decrease in saturation. They look nice i agree. Decrease the saturation, sorry I don't have an tutorials. If this doesn't work I will look it up in a book later.

 

[swanseamale47]

Theres other things going on here, the last one looks like it started as a hdr, the first one has a noticable cold tint in there as well, bossibly a toned b+w layer blended?

 

[trican]

Hi,

I think the "look" you're talking about is sometimes known as bleach bypass effect (coming from the fim days). Though as swanseamale47 says there are quite a few things going on in those images.

I implemented it as an automatic preset a while back in my online editor (in signature), though I've since disabled it. Off the top of my head, I think it roughly goes something like desaturate by about 40-60% (depends on image), boost the blacks, add extra contrast and possibly tint.


Here are a couple of reasonable links to get you pointed in the right direction:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/alisonjohnston/journal/3148097-bleach-bypass-effect-in-photoshop

http://takeoutphoto.blogspot.com/2009/04/bleach-bypass-photoshop-tutorial.html

 

[Digifrog]

Thanks guys

It looks part bleach bypass and I have also tried the BB filter in Color Efex. What it doesn't do though is explain the blue toning like you would get if selenium toning a BW image but doing the same to a colour image.