Band Photography
In this tutorial I will teach you how to make photos of your band look awesome and ready for a magazine. Below you can see a preview of the final result:
To start out get your photo, I will be using a picture of Hardcut:
To start hit Ctrl-U. This should bring up the Hue/Saturation menu. Insert these settings:
Now go to Gradient maps and apply this gradient on Soft Light on 50% opacity.
Now add a sepia toned photo filter. Have it on Normal 100% opacity:
Now go to Gradient maps and apply this gradient:
Set it on Soft Light on a 30% opacity. Now you should have something like this:
Go to Image > Apply Image. Then go to Shadow/Highlight. Now apply these settings:
Now mask out or erase any parts you don’t like. I masked out almost everything except the bottom, because I thought It was too dark, I also left a little bit on their faces and shirts. Now you should have something like this:
Now make a new layer and go to Filter > Distort> Sharpen. Now you should have a sharpened picture like this:
Now apply a sepia toned gradient on the amount of 14%
Last but not least apply a Brightness/Contrast layer, on any amount that suits your picture. Now you should have something like this:
Congratulations you have turned your metal band photo into one very good looking picture.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I wish you all the best & In future you can done new thing in a computer world.
Thank You…….
July 12th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Interessing, very good result
July 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
surenos 13
July 18th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
my photoshop doesnt have some of the options described in this tutorial..
there is not filter>distort>sharpen.
my gradient map doesnt have an ability to use soft light,
neither does my photo filter
July 19th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Steve, the filter seems strange, there should be a whole “sharpen” section (filter->sharpen). Just use one of thos.
Also your layers have the ability to use soft light, if you don’t know how to change that I reommend you read some literature for bloody beginners.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:36 am
You, could have just completed this whole procedure explained in this tutorial much quicker using a simple Plugin. then sharpening afterwards if you want.
Much more effective.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:28 am
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