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I would like to someone to tell me how the picture of the man in the flash header was made to look like this. Here is the

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A short, practical take: the header image "pops" because of a few coordinated visual tricks rather than a single magic filter. pointed out the same photo looks flat lower on the page; and others suspected editing or perspective. The real effect is usually lighting/edge separation, targeted detail/contrast, and careful background treatment. Below is a concise workflow that recreates that look without repeating earlier, surface-level tips.

  • Boost perceived depth with a narrow rim or edge highlight along the silhouette. Paint very lightly, blur, and lower opacity so it reads like a real catchlight from a back or side light.
  • Sculpt form with dodge-and-burn on a 50% gray layer (Overlay/Soft Light). Work at low opacity and build up highlights and shadows to emphasize cheekbones, shoulders, and folds.
  • Add micro-contrast selectively: apply a subtle high-pass or clarity pass and mask it to hair, eyes and the strongest edges only. This makes those elements pop without over-sharpening skin.
  • Treat the background: desaturate and apply a gentle blur and color shift away from the skin tones (cooler), while keeping the subject slightly warmer. That color separation increases perceived distance.
  • Anchor the subject with a very soft shadow on the background plane and finish with targeted sharpening on eyes and hair plus a faint vignette.

Subtlety is key. Test at actual header size and on different displays. For a live-site parallax feel, layer the subject and background and use small CSS/JS transforms rather than heavy animation.

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that's because he has a good smile and good photo editor.

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if you are using photoshop cut him out and place him on a top layer of his own then use free transform tool to make him the size you like to make him stand out the best. hope this helps.
Bad Rabbit Records.

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if you are using photoshop cut him out and place him on a top layer of his own then use free transform tool to make him the size you like to make him stand out the best. hope this helps.
Bad Rabbit Records.

Thank you for trying to help, but I think you misinterpreted my question. I was referring to the 3D look that he has. If you notice that same picture a little bit farther down is obviously 2D. IT's very flat. This one, however, seems "alive". I've seen this before but don't know how it is accomplished. Initially I thought it was shot in a special way, but then I look below and the same picture looks more flat which to me suggests it was "photoshopped".

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I see what you mean now. the only other thing i can think of and it's defo worth a try is it looks to me like he'd slightly tipped forward with the 3d tool. both flash cs4 and photoshop cs4 have them. also photoshop has a perspective tool but I can't remember how to work it exactly but "You Suck as Photoshop" tutorials on Youtube has a good one. hope that is helpfull this time.

bad rabbit

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Nothing is there. They taken the photo in a well manner and edited with photoshop and you know the whole man is fit simply with flash. so nothing is there except the photograph is taken in such view.

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