Arkham City Inspiration

[odj]

WOW, great demo dude! Thanks so much!!! So much better and easier than the way I was trying. Heh. Gonna have to try this method for myself.

*thumbs up* Hopefully there are a few tips and tricks to Photoshop in there that you weren't aware of before. xP There is so much to Photoshop its ridiculous. lol

[Tbone]

My new attempt:

[Ragnarok]

My new attempt:

I have to say I like version of the Diathim better than the first.

[Tbone]

Practicing with a new image. Kicking it old school!

[Tbone]

*thumbs up* Hopefully there are a few tips and tricks to Photoshop in there that you weren't aware of before. xP There is so much to Photoshop its ridiculous. lol

Yeah, I've used Photoshop for many, many years, and I still feel like I only know 10% of its functionality. I love learning new things about it! There were a lot of nice tricks in your tutorial that I wasn't aware of!

[Broin]

Practicing with a new image. Kicking it old school!

Oh I really like that... Can we get some of these made in a format that'd fit a windows background theme?

[Tbone]

Uh, you can try THIS.

[XxUnforgivenxX]

@ Odj, Great tutorial! It looks like you have a great workflow to achieve the high contrast/clean look. I wanted to contribute as well; Below is a link to download some custom BW actions for FA. These actions are meant to achieve different B/W looks and can enhance the image in greater detail and specificity because it targets different tones. I didn't create these actions, that credit would have to go to Doug Boutwell, but I did alter them to add my own touch on most of these.

https://files.me.com/jephotography/bz8gqd

Please keep this link within the guild.

The FA action set should be compatible with CS3 and later. So long as you're all familiar with layering, masking, and changing opacities then these should be easy to customize.

This won't automate the entire process, but at least it will get you closer to the final image, MUCH MUCH FASTER.

Here are samples of each action.... in action

Original:


SemiGlow:


Enhanced Detail:


Bullet Tooth: Tone Bleaching | and Exposure Enhancement


BAMF-NOIR:


BW with Local Tone and Contrast Adjustment Layers

[Saint]

Thankyou for the tutorial, Ive been playing with PS a bit lately and it was nice to learn some more.

[Tbone]

Banner experiment:



Perhaps a way to create more contrast on our site...

[Adad]

Messing around: