Post-Processing Exercise - Film Noir

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Going through the hard drive & saw this. Thought some of you may want to have a go at it.</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Larger version</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Used a B&W preset from ON1 Effects, adjusted to taste. Applied Viveza Brightness and Shadow Adjustment.</p>

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[igord]

<p>Just curves</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>B/w conversion and slight cropping in LR. Then Detail Extractor filter in Color Efex Pro 4</p><div></div>

[JRCrowe]

<p>Used three gradients to darken the edges and reduced clarity and sharpness and add more haze with the dehaze slider. Used the radial filter to do the same on the front of the car. Darkened the light coming through car window. Desaturated overall and changed white balance for a colder tone. Nice photo to work with Rick. Might be fun to try some other treatments on this one.</p><div></div>

[allyn_saroyan]

<p>Added a Photoshop Color Overlay Layer Style in Color blending mode. </p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Thanks John ... give it a go & post 'em</p>

[User_6502147]

<p>That back light bothered me, but was unable to erase it. May have cropped bit too much.</p><div></div>

[michaellinder]

<p>Cropping and levels adjustments in Photoshop Elements 15. Used Pro Contrast to reduce a color cast and to refine contrasts with some assistance from the Low Key filter (both in Color Efex 2). Sharpened using Sharpener Pro 3. (Wanted to use Detail Extractor in Color Efex, but I didn't want to plagiarize Bill's m.o.)</p><div></div>

[michaellinder]

<p>Good one, Rick - thanks!</p>

[Gerald Cafferty]

<p>Hi Rick, thanks for the opportunity. Adjusted lighting (especially in car) with Lightroom. Used a Film Noir preset in Silver Efex Pro (seemed a shame not to) and brought back some details in the faces. Used Elements to add (not totally successfully) the gun discharge effect. Then resized for posting.<br>

GC </p><div></div>

[kevin_la_rue1]

<p>Great shot, fun to work with! I used the new photo editor <a href="http://www.macphun.com/luminar">Luminar</a> from Macphun. Applied the "Film Noir" preset to one layer, smoothed out the grain a bit, used a couple of filters (e.g. "Golden Hour") on another layer to give a slight sepia feel, and then the healing brush to erase some bright spots that were buggin' me. About 3-4 minutes. ;)<br>

Thanks again for the challenge!<br>

<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/sshmx4abm4cgdtj/FilmNoir.jpeg?dl=0" alt="" width="1200" height="900" /></p>

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[Tony Brandstetter]

<p>Layers</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Nicely done all. Thanks for the go.</p>

[JRCrowe]

<p>I wanted to see what I could do with Photoshop so I duplicated the background layer and set blending mode to multiply with about 70% opacity. </p><div></div>

[Gerald Cafferty]

<p>Hi folks, it would appear that the maximum size of photos posted has been increased. When did this happen and what are the new rules?.<br /> GC.</p>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>A bit ago GC ... try 1000 px on the long axis :)</p>

[Gerald Cafferty]

<p>Thanks Rick.<br>

GC.</p>