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Marko
02-01-2009, 01:44 PM
Anyone want to offer up a shot for or Feb's post processing assignment?

~Carla~
02-04-2009, 04:44 PM
I have a portrait of my neice and her new baby boy I took recently.. i'd love to see what people do with it... ?? Here it is to decide on, not sure exactly what you're looking for but thought i'd offer it up! ;) I haven't done a thing to it.. obviously. lol!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll53/justmystuph/075.jpg

kiley9806
02-05-2009, 11:11 AM
ok - i tried a 5 min edit job on this sweet little pic of your neice & her baby... i used paint shop pro, starting with the 'push' brush, i removed some skin marks on both mom & babe, then a little selective sharpening on eyes & lips, played with the curves just a tiny tiny bit, converted to greyscale, added a border and heres what i ended up with....

jjeling
02-05-2009, 12:23 PM
Well, this is a going to be a long explanation. First off, the lighting was a little harsh. I started out using my cloning tool. Turned the opacity way down to 15% and started 'relighting' the image. I used a brush size from 9 pixels all the way up to 90. This took about ten minutes itself. Ear, childs forehead, cheek, nose on both just to name a few. There were bright spots everywhere. Once I eliminated all the bright spots on the subjects, the top right hand corner was distracting me. I took out the paint brush, chose black, and painted in the black to get rid of white(white is almost always a distraction in an image). Once all the touch up work was done, I adjusted the levels. Fixed the new hot-spots on the image, then used a plugin called Professional Retro used for Photoshop. It can be found on a website that will remain nameless until I can get Marko's permission to post it(it is a list of free Photoshop plugins). So that is how I came to the result. Great image, just needed a little work.

Marko
02-05-2009, 12:39 PM
Wow 2 very different versions - Nice!
I think I may try this one as well in a couple of days. :D

jjeling
02-05-2009, 12:53 PM
I will be trying this again as well. I actually like the full color version of this better than my final product. There is this problem of taking things waaay too far, and its all mine. So, if Marko posts a full color version I will not worry about, but Ill check back in a few days, and post it if he does not.

~Carla~
02-05-2009, 06:56 PM
Very cool edits! Thanks guys~ :D Looking forward to see what anyone else does...

tomorrowstreasures
02-10-2009, 12:13 AM
played with levels, curves, Gaussian blur, clone tool - went way too soft on the nose.

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kat
02-10-2009, 12:41 AM
This is my attempt..:eek:

Going to get my husband, the Photoshop pro, to fool around tomorrow with it and see what he can get..usually it's pretty good!

Really neat to see what people come up with!

Barefoot
02-10-2009, 12:20 PM
Super job, kat. And the best yet, in my eye.

Mad Aussie
02-11-2009, 03:09 PM
Hey cool ... I only just found this forum. I should get out (around photography.ca) a bit more :D

Iguanasan
02-11-2009, 05:20 PM
Hey cool ... I only just found this forum. I should get out (around photography.ca) a bit more :D

I just keep clicking "New Posts" whenever I show up and it helps me keep on top of the conversation in all the threads.

Travis
02-11-2009, 07:44 PM
If I had more time I think I'd desaturate some of the reds on baby.

jjeling
02-11-2009, 07:52 PM
Nice job Travis. Thats about what my original looked like. I went way too far. At least you know when to stop. haha. Looks great.

Mad Aussie
02-12-2009, 12:18 AM
Thought I'd have a quick crack at this too ...

1st one has a lighting effect added and a bit of sharpening

2nd one has the lighting effect but I added some blur effects to soften it all up

3rd one has both sharpening (around the faces mostly) and blur for the rest of the image to create a smaller depth of field effect to keep the skin soft.

edbayani11
02-21-2009, 07:27 AM
my attempt

edbayani11
02-21-2009, 09:39 AM
Another attempt. I'M HAVING FUN.

kiley9806
02-21-2009, 12:09 PM
i like that 1st attempt of your ed - very nice & natural looking...

edbayani11
02-21-2009, 08:44 PM
i think i'm going overboard

Mad Aussie
02-21-2009, 08:50 PM
At least it's keeping you off the streets Ed ;)

tomorrowstreasures
02-21-2009, 09:22 PM
At least it's keeping you off the streets Ed ;)
LOLLLLLL - breathe, tt, breathe!

Mad Aussie
02-21-2009, 09:24 PM
LOLLLLLL - breathe, tt, breathe!
Clench tt ... CLENCH!! :eek:

edbayani11
02-21-2009, 10:37 PM
yes MA but even if i want to i can,t. i think i'm getting old. i'll be 72 this june. he he

tomorrowstreasures
02-21-2009, 10:54 PM
[QUOTE=edbayani11;11888]yes MA but even if i want to i can,t. i think i'm getting old. i'll be 72 this june. he he[/QUOTE
way to go, Ed, love having you join in on the fun!!!