How to achieve the popular Mastin lab look

[Chablis]

Hello D, please can you help me achieve this look:

 

My file attached

 

[Damien Symonds]

Is this anywhere close?

[Chablis]

Oh yes - very

[Damien Symonds]

This is the Photoshop solution, of course, but you should be able to adapt it to a raw preset fairly easily if desired.

Download PSD

[Chablis]

Thank you

[Mary Burgy]

This one really interests me.  When you do creative edits like this, does skin just go out the window?  I currently look at CMYK values as I do your Skin action to help me judge.  When you use a "preset" or effect like this, do you just ignore those values?  Also, if you were going to adjust this to an ACR preset, would you just mess in the Hue/Sat tab?

[Damien Symonds]

2 hours ago, Mary Burgy said:

This one really interests me.  When you do creative edits like this, does skin just go out the window?

Oh yes.

2 hours ago, Mary Burgy said:

Also, if you were going to adjust this to an ACR preset, would you just mess in the Hue/Sat tab?

Midtone contrast first, then yes, Hue/Sat.

[Mary Burgy]

I am looking to find some presets for my personal "non masterpiece" work (as you call it) to help speed things up.  However, I can't get past the contrast to the skin in most of them.  

[Chablis]

Mary - I like what it does to the background colours - particularly the greens and maroon type colours. I don't like what it does to skin, so if I were to use this I would only do it to the background and the strong colours, not the skin.

[Mary Burgy]

I am wondering if this could work on the pic I am currently working on.  Is the PSD still around?

[Damien Symonds]

1 hour ago, Mary Burgy said:

I am wondering if this could work on the pic I am currently working on.  Is the PSD still around?

Sorry, yes, try again now.

[Kendra]

Can you repost the psd file, Damien? Thank you.

 

[Damien Symonds]

6 hours ago, Kendra said:

Can you repost the psd file, Damien? Thank you.

Done.

[Eran]

This one is very interesting... I still don't get how to reverse engineer effects...
@Damien Symonds how do you know the process to do to get same results ?

 

[Damien Symonds]

Just instinct and experience.

[Carla Mills]

1 hour ago, Damien Symonds said:

Done.

thank you

[Kendra]

On 12/19/2017 at 10:24 AM, Mary Burgy said:

This one really interests me.  When you do creative edits like this, does skin just go out the window?  I currently look at CMYK values as I do your Skin action to help me judge.  When you use a "preset" or effect like this, do you just ignore those values?  Also, if you were going to adjust this to an ACR preset, would you just mess in the Hue/Sat tab?

Where do I gain knowledge of the skin action and what to look for in CMYK values to achieve good skin tone? 

[Damien Symonds]

2 hours ago, Kendra said:

Where do I gain knowledge of the skin action and what to look for in CMYK values to achieve good skin tone? 

In the Skin Class.

[pamela45106]

Any chance you'd be willing to re-post the psd file again @Damien Symonds?

[Damien Symonds]

1 hour ago, pamela45106 said:

Any chance you'd be willing to re-post the psd file again @Damien Symonds?

Done.