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This is a discussion on February 2009 within the Post -processing forums, part of the Photo assignments category; Anyone want to offer up a shot for or Feb's post processing assignment?...

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    Anyone want to offer up a shot for or Feb's post processing assignment?
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    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!


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    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....
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    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.
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    Wow 2 very different versions - Nice!
    I think I may try this one as well in a couple of days.
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    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.
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    Very cool edits! Thanks guys~ Looking forward to see what anyone else does...

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    played with levels, curves, Gaussian blur, clone tool - went way too soft on the nose.

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    This is my attempt..

    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!
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    Super job, kat. And the best yet, in my eye.
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