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I was wondering if anyone could tell me what filter, effect or chain of effects produces the attached photo. I've seen the effect all over the place lately, but the first place I remember seeing it; and where I went back to find this, was in some of the Chiodos pictures from their site.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm pretty sure it's the gay filter.
I can't find the one.
Check next to the OMG TATTOO NECKLACE filter... it's in the same category.
But I had to use teh le3t h4x to make that filter myself.
Why didn't you just go to www.sillytatsfilters.it.co.ps.lol?
are you talking about the fact that it looks kinda washed out and grainy? i'm not sure if it's a filter or not...but i'd just mess with the brightness and contrast settings or the levels/color balance. other than that i really don't know just by looking at it.
I'm with rama in that it looks like lighting levels got messed around with more than anything, but I think it's a lot more than just brightness/contrast. There's also a lot of cut-n-paste editing that looks to be going on, as there's a bunch of light sources that don't match up which give it an unnatural look. Not sure what else you're refering to since it otherwise just looks like a standard Photoshopped image with some smoothed editing to make people look better.
I'm really talking about the lighting.
my guess would be they duplicate the layer then desaturate it. probably chage blending modes (screen). duplicate more. blending mode overlay or color burn then add noise for effect.
find me a pic you want it done to and ill see if i can replicate it.
I google picture and found this:
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/big-ben-picture.jpg
If you can do the same thing to that picture you need to teach me how.
gimme a couple minutes.
added some noise to it. close as i could get in 10 minutes.
http://i3.tinypic.com/6yanskk.jpg
While that picture is now grainy and crazy, you might be on the right track with the duplicate layer.
I desaturated the lower layer and gave the top one a 50% Opacity and fucked with saturation and contrast and I'm getting closer.
you basically want to duplicate base pic. desaturate the duplicated layer. duplicate the desaturated layer. work on this one. change it's mode to screen and mess with the opacity. duplicate original layer and move it to the top of your stack. change that layers blend mode to overlay or color burn (seems to depend on the pic)
i actually have a much better idea but am going to watch balls of fury and go to bed. ill post something up tomorrow.
the original picture looks like each person was shopped in individually, giving a weird cutout look. There's a whole lot going on there, the shadows are all wrong and the perspective on a couple people look screwy.
Definitely a lot of photo editing going on in that photo and not just a filter. You also have to start with a good quality photo, which means camera lens, lighting, and photographer.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1196714673
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1198136480
i can't say i sat and studied the picture but i didn't see any of that. (the shadows maybe, but like i said i haven't really looked at it much).Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
The guy in the blue shirt has giant feet.
http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm
Check this website out. They have a ton of actions you can download that will either do everything for you, or do most of the work and ask you to do some adjustments to your own liking. Draganizer is a pretty cool one, that if adjusted could look like that original pic.