Jill Greenberg Effekt - Photoshop tutorial

Hello everybody, and welcome to our first tutorial. My name is Mattias and I'm vice owner of Lulemedia. In this tutorial I will show you how to do a similar Jill Greenberg effect in PhotoShop. Lets go The first thing you'll have to do is to delete the background of your objective. You can do it in many several ways i.e a layer mask. Myself using a plug-in called "Topaz remask 3" Before we continue with the photo, we want to go into the LAB color mode In order to do it. You go Image-> Mode-> LAB color Now I got up an popup asking me if I want to merge the layers, and I do so I click "merge". Now we go to channels, and pick the lightness channel. The basic principle for this effect, is to work with shadows and highlights. We do that with two tools. One of them is burn tool and the other is dodge tool. We start with burn tool. Make sure you've "Range" to "Shadow". And exposure to about 15%. Then, just paint on the dark parts of the photo. When you feel that you're happy with the result. Go over to dodge tool, do the same thing. But make sure you've "Range" to "Highlight" and "Exposure" to 15% again. Alright, I'm done. As you can see I haven't been very carefully. But I guess you'll understand anyway. Ok, then we go over to the color channel instead. What we now want to do is another background to the photo We create a new layer, Pull up our photo above the new layer, Choose gradient tool, and double-click here. Choosing white to a gray-blue color. Something like that. Make sure you've "radial gradient" selected. Go to about center of the photo, push down the mousebutton and pull it to one of the corners. Ops, I made it on wrong layer. So we're re-doing it. Trying again. Alright. Now that's more like something. But, I think it's way too much saturation on the photo itself. I will do a new adjustment layer with "Hue/Saturation". And I lower the saturation a little. And that's all. And you can of course make a vignette too. I can quickly show you how to do it. Make a new layer. Press CTRL A. ALT, BACKSPACE. In order to fill the layer with black color. Select the "eraser" and pick a big brush. Something like this. And then we press a couple of times. The corners may be too sharp, so I will blur it some with Filter -> Blur -> "Guassian Blur". And then I use the eraser again Alright, now we got the effect that we looked for. Thanks for watching (and please subscribe). Subtitles by the Amara.org community