Need help in thumb "glamouring" with photoshop.

[borgivan]

Few days ago, I found this thread in one forum, here it is: http://www.armadaboard.com/viewtopic.php?p=4497667
Thumbs after editing seems very tasty and colorful! I can't even imagine, how to do this "beauty"! Hey, photoshop guru! Give some advises, please !

[annie_cash]

looking at the thumbs I guess maybe they used something like this

filter -> sharpen
image adjustents -> brighness/contrast
filter gallery -> diffuse glow (grainines = 0, )

and probably they deleted "imprefections" with the spot healing brush tool (use it pressing Alt)

Hope that was helpful

[kitty_kate]

annie_cash: could you please be more specific about that?
I tried the diffuse glow, but it doesn't make any difference in comparison with the original picture, but to put darkness in some areas of the picture.

Thanks

[borgivan]

Originally Posted by annie_cash

filter -> sharpen
image adjustents -> brighness/contrast
filter gallery -> diffuse glow (grainines = 0, )

Thanks, but I had an unsuccessful experience of appling this tools ! Could you be more detailed ?

Maybe there ara some step-by-step lessons ore somthing else.... because this "topic" is an head ache of many awm-newbies, and it would be cool to stop it by detailed explanation !

Thank you!

[annie_cash]

OK im with the photoshop right now, Ill make a step by step of a way to make this thumb look like the example on that page

Click Ctrl+L to change the brightness/contrast of the pic (0 - 1.0 - 227)

filter -> sharpen (it will give more definition to the pic dont use it too much or it will get pixelated)

Image -> adjustments -> color balance (on "midtones" change cyan to -41) (also on "highligths" change cyan to -20)

Then grab the "blur tool" set it on "0 hardness" (right click to see the settings) and blur her face, body, until its smooth enough.

Now grab the "sharpen tool" (its behind the blur tool) and light up the semen, lips and eyes.

Click on filter gallery -> diffuse glow and set it grainness = 0 , glow ammount= 2 , clearammount = 20 (it will give the wite bright thing on her face)

Finally click on Image -> adjustments -> hue/saturation (hue = +2, saturation= -5)

And the last thing: select the eye with the round selection tool and give it more color saturation and contrast to make it brighter

And thats it If you do that you should get good results. This is the thumb I editted using the stepts I wrote here It has some differences (like the color on the lips, dick etc) but I think its still its pretty similar.

Hope I was more clear this time and sorry about my english it kinda sucks

Annie

[secretagentwilly]

holy shit...that's pretty tight...do you guys do this kind of doctoring to the picture sets you submit? I don't. I think that would make it super time intensive. But I'm considering it...the pictures look real good like that...

[annie_cash]

you can always use photoshop actions so you only have to set those properties once and then the program change all the pics automatically

[borgivan]

Originally Posted by annie_cash

you can always use photoshop actions so you only have to set those properties once and then the program change all the pics automatically

And what about body "blur" and "sharpn" tools ? I'll have to do it manualy? ;-)
P.S. Thank you for your cool explanation ! It was very informative to me ! Sweetness to your home ! ;-)