this is Timo and his son Nico.i am Timo`s uncle.i took the shot in the garden. i was so happy about the expression in this shot.so i tried to get a Studio Character image.

1.i made a fast selection ( feather 12 or more pixel, try )deleted the background and adjust brightness and contrast, you can make this before you do the selection, is better i think.

2.i turned it to b/w ( i used Mystical,Tint,Tone & Colour of autofx.com ) and removed the the rest of the background from the image, using the cloner tool, its not needed to make it perfect, because i will add a radial motion blur.some contrast and brightness correction again. on the dark part of Timos face using the burn and dodge tool to brighten up this part.

1. after this i added a radial motion blur filter ( i used the focus filter out of the Dreamsuite1 of autofx.com).

the postwork is done in photoshop 7. i used some filters of www.autofx.com.

i especially like the Mystical Tint,Tone and Colour filter.

hope you can need this informations

gerhard

time to do this is ca. 30 min - 60 min. !!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!!!

when i look at the steps, i must say the brighten up of the dark part of Timo`s face i made in step 2 when i adjust brightness and contrast and in the final step a second time. !!!!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!!

Thank you Gerhard.... I loved seeing the before and after, and how you made this! Wonderful!

Nett, dadu dir die Me f die ausfrliche Erklung gemacht hast!

i was curious to see the before shot... what is amazing, is the vision beforehand for what you want out of shot! :D fabulous image!!

A very classy and cool method. Thanks for the tip mate. Even though I am not using Photoshop I am sure, I can adopt the method in whatever ware I use. You have made the basics clear. Thanks bunches!!!! Would love to learn more from you tech. Thanks once again. SNAKEY

for me, it was many work to write the tutorial. this thread only got 4 comments.i havent the time to write more about postwork. thank you all !!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!

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regards

gerhard !!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!!

I came here from the link you placed on Enmoss's thread about postwork. I knew you did a lot of postwork on most of your images, which is the magic of viewing your images in my opinion, but the explanation sheds more light in the techniques you use to reach your final visionary masterpieces! Thanks for sharing []/;^)