how to make high key with photoshop

[flub]

i know that PS is not the only thing to make a high key photography,but i think

photoshop give a large contribution to make high key effect,i try to googling

before to get this highkey photograph

http://www.photo.net/photo/6029333 ,but i haven't found the

answer yet,is anybody know how to achive this effect?thank's before.

[emre]

All you need is Curves, Curves, Curves.

 

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/photoshop-curves.htm

[steven_clark]

There is a very large set of problems that the moment you see it Curves is the first thing that should come to mind. Hence why an editor without curves is virtually useless.

[ronald_moravec1]

One must have a high key subject to begin with. In other words one with predominately light tones and perhaps a small area of dark to complete the tonal range. Just pushing up middle tones to brightem them looks fake and is fake unless you want a special effect.

 

Generally you want the background very light so illuminate it in that fashion when you make the photo. Or select the background and lighten it. Lots of PS tools for this like color replace, hue saturation. Color range is a good to to select the background. Getting it right in camera is best.

[richsimmons]

Curves is one way, High pass filter is another, multiple layers and adjustment layers will work too. Shadow/highlight feature. There's a ton of ways. Everybody is different. But the photo you're refering to looks more like high contrast. You can get this a number of ways. Using one channel (like red) and creating a new document from it and applying filters, etc., etc. to know specifically, you'd have to ask the person who did it.

[michael_mcblane]

I don't see where this photograph has necessarily been photoshopped at all to achieve this "effect". A high key photograph generally is a photograph will little or no dark tones in it and is usually on a light background.

 

This particular photograph could easily be achieved simply by lighting.

[ellis_vener_photography]

these are two "high key" versions. But basically Adam W. lit really well in his original<div></div>

[ellis_vener_photography]

I used levels not curves. And multiple layers of levels + Screen blending mode on the lower version

[flub]

thank's for all your sugestion.

[terry_spade]

I also started with levels.<div></div>

[terry_spade]

Then I converted to bw. Then I tri toned it and converted it back to bw.<div></div>

[flub]

thank's terry...