'Venture' Style Portraits

Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery
Cheers
dave

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Dave,

I wouldn't say that a lot has been done at all, most of the effect would have been created by the right lighting in the shoot.

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Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery
Cheers
dave

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Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery

No necessarily Photoshop.
Probably color film pushed a few stops and processed in E6 Do a search about Cross Processing film.

Stephan

Stephan said:

No necessarily Photoshop.
Probably color film pushed a few stops and processed in E6 Do a search about Cross Processing film.

Having got some portraits done at venture, I can categorically say that it's not film nor lighting. They shoot on digital and save onto a laptop in a simply lit white room. They then 'process' the pix and call you back a few weeks later to see the result and buy (and boy do they charge!).

FWIW, I find you can achieve a similar effect by messing around with Levels. For a quick and dirty Venturing, if you have a fairly plain pale background, select Image/Adjust/Levels (at least in PS 5.5), then select the white dropper and click on something pale but not white, and then maybe the black dropper on something darkish.

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Hi David,

Maybe this is what you are looking for: Cross Film Processing within Photoshop
http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/55mm-4/55mmcrossproc.htm

Sincerely,

Grant

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Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery
Cheers
dave

Duplicate the photo layer. Change the top layer mode to Overlay. Add a Curves and/or Color Balance layer(s) and mess with the various controls. I believe you can get really close.

Steve

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From: "Grant"
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.photoshop
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:58:18 GMT
Subject: Re: 'Venture' Style Portraits

Hi David,

Maybe this is what you are looking for: Cross Film Processing within Photoshop
http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/55mm-4/55mmcrossproc.htm
Sincerely,

Grant

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Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery
Cheers
dave

Thanks everyone - I'll give ideas a try over the weekend. A friend of mine told me that they shoot digital - so I guessed the finished pic is down to some work in photoshop.

Dave

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Duplicate the photo layer. Change the top layer mode to Overlay. Add a Curves and/or Color Balance layer(s) and mess with the various controls. I
believe you can get really close.

Steve

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From: "Grant"
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.photoshop
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:58:18 GMT
Subject: Re: 'Venture' Style Portraits

Hi David,

Maybe this is what you are looking for: Cross Film Processing within Photoshop
http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/55mm-4/55mmcrossproc.htm
Sincerely,

Grant

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Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this
website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery
Cheers
dave

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:11:54 GMT, "David"
wrote:

Cam anyone shed any light (no pun intended!) on how the images are manipulated in Photoshop to get the finished effect as shown here on this website

http://www.thisisventure.co.uk/gallery
Cheers
dave

Start with a close cropped shot with a light background. Use Curves to increase the midrange contrast with an "s"curve and then use Hue, Saturation, Lightness to lower saturation and increase lightness. Then try selecting one side of subject with a strongly feathered rectangular markee and use levels to blow out to white.

I also fooled around with a small dose of the smart blur filter on the result. It looks like all the tools are there for a Photoshop guy (or gal) with an artist's eye to do that sort of stuff.