Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Need help with this

jenstar opened this issue on Jan 08, 2009 · 8 posts


spedler posted Thu, 08 January 2009 at 3:43 PM

Well, the things which occur to me are these. Firstly, I can't see any way in which you could take just any photo of a model under any kind of lighting conditions and transform it into an image which looks like that. To get an image of that kind, you would have to either photograph the live model in the correct lighting conditions, probably against a white backdrop, or in a 3D app, render a 3D model against the right background in the correct sort of light.

The lighting looks to be very soft and even global illumination - there is very little in the way of shadows - so your image would have to be created, either photographically or in 3D, in that sort of lighting to get a good starting point.

Once the lighting is done, you can take the photo or rendered image and process it in PS to enhance the effect. It would probably mean playing with levels, curves, and layer blending to get it looking like that. There might be a plugin which could give a good result with few clicks - maybe try the demo of Mystical Lighting from AutoFX (http://www.autofx.com/). But frankly I don't think you need a plugin if the original image is correctly lit and if it isn't I don't think any plugin could convert it to that style.

Steve