How can I get this effect on my photographs?

Hello,
I find this kinda grayscale effect very interesting and effective, but I cant get it and I hoped that you can help me on how to get this kind of effect:


Dunno if its a plugin or effect, but I really would appreciate if you'd help me on getting this effect on my photos, thanks.

Really it looks to me like its just a really nice photo, changed to grayscale and some selective sharpening done. Pretty standard stuff...

What exactly are you seeing that you want to acheive?

Take a standard photo and change it to grayscale, put it with this one together one by one and see if there is any differents...

[QUOTE=awesome]Take a standard photo and change it to grayscale, put it with this one together one by one and see if there is any differents...[/QUOTE]

Sure there will be differences if you just leave it at that.

You have to do some toning, and sharpening to even get close. A simple RGB to grayscale conversion wont get you there. I do however contend that this is no "standard" photo. A pro took that photo the quality of the lighting tells me that...

After your grayscale conversion go CTR+L to bring up the levels pallet. Make sure preview is checked and grab the highlight slider (the white one on the right) and drag it toward the left.... see the change in tone? Play with the sliders to adjust you tone and contrast.

Next run an unsharpmask filter on the image... (a couple of times at different strengths if you have to.

A straight conversion to grayscale often produces quite a flat-looking image that needs some attention to improve it. In addition to the methods outlined by Tornupinside, you can also try a bit of dodging and burning to deepen the blacks and raise the highlights in areas of the image.

Use the burn tool with a large, soft brush set to 'shadows' with strength 2 -5 %. Play the brush quickly over the shadow areas, don't linger on any one area or the shadows will fill in too much.

Set the dodge tool to 'highlights', also with a large, soft brush at 2 -5 %. Same method as the burn tool, but use it to accentuate the highlights.

Takes a bit of practice to get right, but with a bit of patience you can make good improvements to an ordinary b + w image.

omg yall helpless...thanks for trying tho...

Yeah Wano.... we're helpless.... omg.... and stuff.

Aw, well it was only a matter of time before somebody found us out eh? :eek:

Omg when I think of all the hours I've wasted sitting in front of the screen, helplessly searching for that magical Photoshop button that turns a crap photo into an artistic masterpiece! ;)

flam3d?

i think the pivotal difference may be the ugly girl.
and getting lucky w/ the rusted/textured bg.

YEah, Wano and I got flamed.... but we're so clueless/helpless we didn't even notice. :D