i put this one together really fast, ill post a new one up which goes more in depth soon

btw, this is a teaser from the shoot i did this morning!


here is the original pic in photoshop CS5



I first adjusted the shadows using the shadows and highlights option
(Image-->adjustments-->shadows and highlights)

---after shadows and highlights


after that i did HDR Toning
(Image-->adjustments-->HDR Toning)


after HDR Toning


then i used selective coloring to change the colors in the original pics to my own preference

after selective coloring


Then came sharpening, i used the smart sharpen filter
(filter-->sharpen-->smart sharpen)


After sharpening i used the vibrance tool to adjust the vibrance of the colors

then i re-did selective coloring just to make the colors look a little better


i didnt like how the tailights looked so i selected them using the polygonal lasso tool and once again used selective coloring to recolor them


I did the same thing with the chimney


I determined that the lambo in the garage in the background looked too blurry, so i selected it using the polygonal lasso tool and used the smart sharpen filter again to sharpen it up

after smart sharpen on superleggera

i then clicked the levels button and adjusted them to darken up the picture a little


Then i used the photo filter tool to warm the picture up a little


i then copy and pasted in my logo/watermark

i right clicked the layer for the watermark and then clicked on blending properties and messed around with the blending options

 

BEFORE(original pic)


AFTER:::::::::::



ill post a better and more in depth one soon but for now here is one that was very simple

 

Wow impressive !!! Thanks man, i will try to play with some of my photos

 

Very, very clever.
I'm impressed.


Well done!

 

thanks!

 

Great work!

 

thanks so much!!!!

this was really great. I just got a new video card and will be cleaning up pictures soon and making my own water mark

 

That was really informative pal. I look at you pictures and I think "how the heck does he get such a HDR look to them when they clearly are single shots?" Now I know! I guess I'll have to 'invest' in CS5, I think I have CS2 on my PC at home.

 

nice!

 

I just watched a video on CS5, WOW! That is one powerful program. Funny enough, for years i've been saying "I wish you could just select something and have CS delete and fill it for you", aka, no more clone tool... 'Content-aware fill' is absolutely incredible!

I know what I'll be searching for in Dubai this weekend

 

Yea, it's pretty advanced

 

Photoshop gives me headaches.

 

meh, you enhanced the ugly reflections on the car. stuff sitting out of frame reflecting. power lines, etc. Gotta clean that up. I think the original photo looks cleaner. the point is to make the car look good. you might want to add some blur to the background to remove it from the focus.

 

Kbahl all your pic dont look good man sorry. Your work is just "meh".

Listen to this guy and take a look at his work and maybe you can learn a thing or two.

 

He posted this thread up in regards to a request I made to him about HDR effect post editing, if he did the full head to toe clean up it would have been quite a longer thread. He covered the basic points I (and others) wanted to see and I thank him for that.

I see you are a pro photographer yes, nice camera of choice, I also have a 5D MKII with L series lenses. I have the eye but not the post editing skills yet.

 

Looks like you did a little post-editing to your sig pic, nice

 

as i said before this one was quick, ill post a real one up when i have more time

 

Don't give away all your tricks to us mate, people pay you to shoot thier rides because you do good work

 

Haha thanks, ill post one up the not to full capacity but it will show more tricks and stuff

 

yes, don't give away all your tricks! ;-) there are a LOT of great tools out there for photo editing, my favorites are by a company called NIK software. Check em out!

 

yah played around with the instructions kbahl gave. Pretty effective really

 

all I can say is the clone tool is your friend. that hood reflections gotta go! lol