My take on the 300 filter

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I was messing around with photoshop and came out with some, slightly different, techiniques to make an image look like 300.

The original:


Style 1:


Style 2:


Style 3:


Style 3 to another image (face details removed for privacy )(click to enlarge):


Which one looks better?

[thediceman]

style three looks like it would be bet but not on the second pic

[joshbond]

ya, I gotta go with #3. not sure how well it would work on other non-300 pics though. If it would give the same effect.

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The fact is that each "style" has quite a few parameters to tweak, in the 2rd photo (3rd style) i left in more colour because i like the result.

To get a 300ish photo you actually need the original photo to have the least blues, green as possible but many reds:
Original:

Edited:


If the photo isn't as required it needs more work and doesn't get out as good (imo):
Before/after