Photoshop techniques to get the Dave Hill look - Photoshop Tutorial

Dave Hill manage to obtain an effect in post production, that the public strongly liked and generated many emulation attempt, a Flickr user called O Casasola obtained a result pretty similar to the one obtained by Dave Hill and his idea is based on the High Pass effect of Photoshop.

Both Tutorial and the images inside were realized by Elfego Omar Casasola

Original photo used to perform the Jill Greenberg and Dave Hill look.

The finished photo after applying several layers and other photoshop techniques to get the Jill Greenberg and Dave Hill look.

For Strobist:

This image was shot using an Acute Pro foto with two heads a background light, a hair light and a white cardboard reflector. Main light was to the front left side of the subject with a softbox. A light with an umbrella was directed to her back for hair detail and modeling. A hair light above and the small radio triggered flash with a magenta gel to color the muslin background. The reflector was placed barely out of camera on her left side.

Edit: Check out the STROBIST group to see how other photographer's are applying this effect. www.flickr.com/groups/strobist

DAVE HILL PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL:

STEP 1

Make sure the levels and color are fixed on the original before you start.

Duplicate the layer on the LAYER pallette

Go to FILTER - OTHER - HIGH PASS type 4.0 for RADIUS

On the LAYERS pallette choose vivid light for the opacity

Now flatten the image.

STEP 2

Duplicate the layer on the LAYER pallette

Go to FILTER - OTHER - HIGH PASS type 6.9 for RADIUS

On the LAYERS pallette choose color for the opacity

Set opacity to 40%

Now flatten the image.

STEP 3

For this step you need to do the following

DUPLICATE LAYER on layer pallette

FILTER - BLUR - GAUSSIAN BLUR 9.4 pixels

FILTER - NOISE - ADD NOISE 3%

From the top menu select LAYER - ADD LAYER MASK - HIDE ALL

Using the lasso tool select only the eyes and choose SELECT - FEATHER about 6pixels

Choose SELECT - INVERSE

Now use the brush on the tool pallette and set the brush opacity to 30% - brush over the entire image

Now FLATTEN the image

STEP 4

The final step is to sharpen the image.

Go to FILTER - SHARPEN - UNSHARP MASK

Use the following settings:

• AMOUNT 100%
• RADIUS 30.0 pixels
• THRESHOLD 0

These are all of the steps that I believe will get you that Dave Hill and Jill Greenberg look. Most of it the look is due to the multiple lights used to create highlights.

Have Fun.

Originale Source: Elfego Omar Casasola

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