Restyling of pic´s.
Hey everyone, took the liberty to do some quick and dirty retouching on 2 previous pics in this thread to show what some additional work can do, hope you like it
Don´t want to step on anyone's toes, 2 great pictures that I tried a few things on just to show how I would have done.
Most of the work done on these pic´s are a little more advanced since alot of layers in photoshop been used combined with layermasks and filters, so I will only go into the bigger things briefly.
It´s alot more complicated then one can think to snap a picture and make it look the way you want
Original:
Retouched by me:
Photoshop CS4 was being used and noise ninja for degrain.
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Work done, ran a de-grain filter on it just a tiny bit to not kill details.
Adjusted levels a bit in the picture to get some better overall contrast.
Working a lot with layer masks (advanced stuff but easy when you tried a bit)
Layer masks for working on colours in background/reflections a bit.
And dont forget,
DODGE and BURN tool is you friend for awesome detail!
The can brighten whites and darken the shadowy stuff for very precise control over contrast without changing the overall feel to the picture.
To bring out more details as well you can use highpass(filter) with a setting of 1.4 ish or just make sure you see outlines of the important details, change layer setting to overlay/ soft light just try what looks best for you.
Sometimes better then sharpen tool (unsharp mask etc.
Also added some vignette for some better focus on the watch since the background was kind of colourful.
That´s about it
2nd watch I used more or less the same technique but copy-pasted foreground into background and blurred it for some depth of field.
Lots of work with desaturation to kill off all blue tones and once again DODGE and BURN alot on dial and bezel.
Unsharp mask for some added crispiness.
Before:
After my retouch:
/Thanks for WATCHing!