To recreate this effect?

[Tonee]

http://www.asmussenfoto.dk/index2.html#

the girl in the middle... isn't that AWESOME!

Seems that Renee uses the grundgy look in a lot of her portfolio... Im not looking for how to do the grundge... but more at the coloring techniques... like the skin tones etc... any clues?

[Tamlin]

There are certainly some amazing and inspiring images on that site. It's not easy to tell, but the image you mentioned looks like it has been either converted to black & white or has been heavily desaturated, and then hand-tinted. You can do this fairly easily in Photoshop by removing the colour from your original image (or a copy on a new layer) and then painting the new colours on with the brush tool's painting mode set to Color. It's not essential, but I find it useful to add each new colour on a separate layer, too.

Hope this helps.

PS: Actually, I think René Asmussen might be a guy.

[jefe317]

I was also thinking of desaturating it not all the way, but enough to make it grungy, and then make a new layer and color in spots to your liking.