How do you do this (photo attached)

[mis622]

file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Misty/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpgHow do you do this (photo attached) Mainly the coloring as a whole, not the frame or burned out edging.

[Diana]

That is really hard to tell... there are so many different kinds of effects that can be applied. It appears to have a soft glow effect. But much of the look of it could have been from the lighting used when the photo was taken.

Diana

[Byron Gale]

It looks, to me, like a fairly basic photograph taken at a dark hour, using a flash.

The hard part would be getting all of the women to smile at the same time, and not blink during the flash.

(I guess the girl 2nd from the right didn't get the memo about wearing knee-shorts! :p )

[frank abramonte]

The only thing that puzzles me is:
1. The length of the arm on the most extreme right hand girl looks too long. It seems as though it was added on to.
2. The girl with the green top has a toe less shoe on one foot and closed toe on the other.
Has anyone have any other observations?

[Karin Sue]

I can't really see the shoes well enough to tell but I think that arm belongs to the girl in the green top and not the girl on the end.

[trhodes]

I would agree with Byron - basic flash photo....and hot too, judging by the "burn spot" on the drivers door. Shadows seem to be made from on-camera light source. Maybe some post-processing to mute colors. A little de-saturate -maybe?

A cute shot and posing of girls night out.

[mis622]

How do you do this........Maybe some post-processing to mute colors. A little de-saturate.


I finally found some actions that made something similar to this photo.

Believe me it is edited with some type of actions.

[Diana]

You're probably right that it was done with some sort of action.

To desaturate an image, from the menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue Saturation (or keyboard shortcut Ctrl-U). Then drag the Saturation slider to the left. But that doesn't really give the glowing effect your example seems to have.

You might try the Diffuse Glow filter. It's under Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow. First duplicate the background layer with Ctrl-J, then apply the Diffuse Glow filter to the duplicate layer, dragging the sliders to your liking. After applying it, if it's too much of an effect, you can lower the opacity of that layer to reduce the effect a little. Here's one I tried it with:

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/15UojlLte5keVGC0X4y3Wbvx7dpz70_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=15UojlLte5keVGC0X4y3Wbvx7dpz70)

Diana