I got a phone call from a friend of mine this morning asking for my help with a gift he was working on for his wife's birthday.
He and his step son had a photo shoot, with wigs, etc to achieve a '70s cop show kind of a look, and he wanted me to do a little color correction and background replacement to complete the look.
It turned out pretty nicely, so I thought I would share, as I know people like to see color correction examples and such.
Before:
After:
Aside from the background replacement, which in itself went a long way to helping sell the "portrait taken in the '70s look", and a little work to color match the fake moustache with the wig, the primary adjustment was mixing a mostly transparent black and white copy of the image over itself, with the color curves adjusted to make it lower contrast, with slightly crushed blacks. Then a second layer was added atop these to cast a slight greenish/brown tint over the entire image.
We were both quite happy with the results, feeling like we were looking at an original circa 1972 portrait print.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
He and his step son had a photo shoot, with wigs, etc to achieve a '70s cop show kind of a look, and he wanted me to do a little color correction and background replacement to complete the look.
It turned out pretty nicely, so I thought I would share, as I know people like to see color correction examples and such.
Before:
After:
Aside from the background replacement, which in itself went a long way to helping sell the "portrait taken in the '70s look", and a little work to color match the fake moustache with the wig, the primary adjustment was mixing a mostly transparent black and white copy of the image over itself, with the color curves adjusted to make it lower contrast, with slightly crushed blacks. Then a second layer was added atop these to cast a slight greenish/brown tint over the entire image.
We were both quite happy with the results, feeling like we were looking at an original circa 1972 portrait print.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
It does look like a 70's portrait.
