Sony Retouch & Halo
In this tutorial, Peter explains his digital workflow and retouching process when working with images taken on his Sony, plus how he acheives his signature halo without the use of the clarity slider he uses in Phocus.
In this tutorial, Peter explains his digital workflow and retouching process when working with images taken on his Sony, plus how he acheives his signature halo without the use of the clarity slider he uses in Phocus.
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24 comments on “Sony Retouch & Halo”
Very nice! Thanks for this!
I was just wondering when you choose a Red/Blue or Green channel on the hasselblad Phocus what exactly is that doing? Is there a way to replicate that in say Capture One? I notice you sometimes say things like “I know this photo will look good on red channel or blue for that beyonce look” Ect..
Thanks Dale, the red channel adds contrast, green channel adds detail, and blue channel adds noise. Peter goes into detail about it in this tutorial https://inspire.peter-coulson.com.au/workshops/retouching/introduction-to-photoshop/converting-to-black-and-white. We don’t know of any way to replciate it in Capture One, Phocus is the only program that does it in raw, but you can replicate it in Photoshop.
Thank you for the reply! Very interesting!
One more thing, Does Peter have a video talking about how he first started, Perhaps some of his worst and best experiences in the industry being a photographer, and how he ended up where he is today.
This year I feel much more confident about my photography and want to try make a bussiness out of it. However I feel there’s so much that Peter could teach just based on his experience. Also perhaps a walk down memory lane showing some of his very early work could have some great lessons in it too.
P.S Sorry for such a long comment 🙂 Happy New year to you all!
No worries at all 🙂 he’s touched on how he started in a few Live Streams on YouTube, but doesn’t have a video telling the whole story yet. He did just find a bunch of old publications at the studio so we will definitely film a walk down memory lane very soon, and talk about how he ended up where he is today. No need to apologise, long comments are great! Happy new year to you too!!
Excellent.
I’m curious, do you ever use Capture One?
Thanks Daniel, I haven’t found a way to get my look out of Capture One, I need to spend a day playing around with it and then I will do a tutorial on it.
sounds good
Great.
After a couple of years sitting on the fence I finally bought into the Sony system. I’m going to be dabbling with C1 as well.
I havent been able to ger my look out of C1 but I will be doint a tutorial on my trying to
Hey Peter. I’ve been dabbling with C1 and playing about with the Clarity slider does indeed produce a similar result as Phocus with regards to the haloing effect. Also, it seems as if the curves adjustment in C1 provides a better result than that in Lightroom/ACR; subjective tastes applicable, of course.
I’m still trying to get my look out of C1
Thanks, Peter ! Second time watching this one. Very useful. It’s beginning to make sense. Adore the look. Cheers !
Thanks
Hi, I’ve really enjoyed your philosophy in keeping it real, or at least YOUR vision.
I thought I would try a hand at your BW technique using the green channel (usually) you have mentioned in several of your tutorials / shoots. You mention that you haven’t found a way to easily implement RGB Channels (Phocus) in other programs such as Capture one.
I wondered if you might give the following a try on a Hasselblad file to see if it gives you a satisfying result to your eyes. I am on a Fuji gfx100.
in Capture One 21 (Mac):
To select the Green “Channel”, go to the RGB/ Luma curves adjustment and simply flatten the Red and Blue curves by dragging the right hand point in each curve all the way to the bottom. Now adjust the Green curve (channel) as you would in Phocus.
So, I am curious to know if this technique in Capture One 21 gives you the same effect as you get in Phocus using the Green Channel.
Disclaimer: (I’m not affiliated with any brand).
I forgot to add of course, checking the “enable black and white” check box, but then going into curves and flattening the color “Channels” you don’t want.
Hi Geoff,
Apologies for my late reply, I was waiting for some time I had to try this. I just gave it a go and it doesnt give me the same look, I wish it did though and really thank you for the suggestion. It’s adjusting the lumisonisty of the whole picture, and not giving me a green filter look. I can get a green filter look in Photoshp and Phocus but Capture One and ACR don’t give you a channel mixer unfortunately.
Hi Peter, Bec,
in the video you mention pre set/actions
did you say you have some photoshop presets we can use/ download/
Thanks
Tony
Hey Tony, Peter doesn’t have presets but he has an action set you can download here https://inspire.peter-coulson.com.au/workshops/retouching/introduction-to-photoshop/bucket-brush-tool it will add layers to the image in photoshop for you to then work on 🙂
Thanks Bec,
i have successfully downloaded the action set . The preset is also a good guid to sorting out your work flow during the edit process.
thanks Tony
Helloo,
Photoshop actions work on Photoshop 2023
I keep running it and have a msg “the command play is currently not available”
Sorry about this Ashraf, what is in your layers when you try to play the actions? Your base layer needs to say background otherwise the action will not play
I have the same issue, I ended up just creating my own action to run them all.
Very nice Video! Do you plan to do one updated version?
And which brush do you use? The round with pressure size?
Yes I have a hole new workflow and videos, and yes a soft round brush with pressure