I love theese images. The colors are wonderful. So I tried to do it, but with no success. Is there any tutorial or can you give me some hints on how to do this? Thanks..

Have you contacted the artist and asked them? Most are willing to share their tips and help people who ask and want to learn something new. It could just be the lighting they applied, in addition to a background for the one on the left.

Just my thought... It was probably done in post. easy enough to do in Photoshop.

I'd agree with the post comment.

Try the melancholytran filter from flaming pear.

There's a third party plugin software for Paint Shop Pro that has filters that look very much like the images above. Ambience, Glamour, etc. Could well be post rendering effects. The name of the plugin is OpticVerve Labs virtual Photographer plugin. If you search this forum you may well find a link. I believe I learned of the plugin reading these forums. Best Wishes, Rance

In PhotoShop, under the menu, where you adjust hue and saturation, tick the "colorize" button. Then run the slider for the hue to get the gradiant you want, and maybe adjust the saturation. If you want the lips or eyes or whatever to be isolated, put them on another layer for treatment. Note: the best images for this sort of effect will look good in black and white, and the hint of color just adds to the mood.

Carolly

Message edited on: 04/21/2005 08:22

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The highlights can be "blown out" my going to "levels" and sampling the highlight with the white eyedropper from a mid range area of face. "Duotone" in modes for blue look and back to RGB for spot coloring the lips. You might be able to get the blue look by desaturating, doing color balance to blue, then painting in the lips with a red brush set to "color". In Photoshop under distort for some reason if I recall is a defuse glow filter. Also you could make a new layer, median blur it, and try settings for the layer like "lighten" or "overlay". Meloncholyatron would work but you have to "spin dials". The xero sets of free filters has everything you could want... amazing, best filters available anywhere! This all may be criptic but my hands are bad today so it is hard to type (disability).

Cross Post: Carolly is totally right about "colorize"... I always for get that one.

Yea..That is Postwork...Look for Postwork magic by Eowyn in Marketplace there cheap I think it's only $6.00 set 1 and 2...

The background on the one on the left looks like the protrait paper background from Daz. Also, on that image, it reminds me of a tutorial I saw once that explained how to make one part of an image in color and the rest of it kind of black and white. It think it was at Daz also. The image on the right looks to be a spotlight on the face and then postwork to turn the image into a black and white photo. Just my opinions though.

I just checked and the Xero filters are pretty much onestep solutions for this. In Photoshop you could use Render/Clouds colored as Carolly suggests to make a background image to import into Poser. I often fake spot lights by putting a round gradient on a Linear Burn layer. I fake depth of field by putting a round gradient mask on a median filtered duplicate layer, then I can fine tune it by painting on the mask with a soft brush, playing with contrast/brightnes on the mask, and adjusting opacity for the layer. Spot coloring I do on a layer set to "color" mode so it is easily reversable. But those filters above will pretty much get what you want from one dialog box.

Thank you all...I tried some of your suggestions and I'm getting some nice effects. Thank you. I'm looking forward to use it on my next render :o) THANK YOU

Good! Have fun playing around and when something works especially well... write it down. It might not be exactly what you want for the present image, but 6 months from now you'll need that effect and wonder how you got it. In PhotoShop on the bottom of the layers palette, is an icon for "adjustment layers". If you do your tweaking there, it is non-destructive to the real image. So you are free to experiment wildly until something neat happens. :) Carolly