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05/28/2006 04:20:57 PM · #1 |
This is an old photo, just trying some different editting styles. Can I get some feedback on the editting, pwease?
Thanks.
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05/28/2006 04:22:36 PM · #2 |
Try some gaussian blur on the forearm.
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05/28/2006 04:22:50 PM · #3 |
I like it. I might try and tone down the arm hair a little but that is it.
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05/28/2006 04:24:33 PM · #4 |
I like the brightness of it but the glowy seems a little a patchy in places almost like a halo at times.
Message edited by author 2006-05-28 16:24:56.
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05/28/2006 04:26:59 PM · #5 |
I think the glow style puts the emphasis in the wrong places in this case. It makes her look (pardon me, she's beautiful, but ... ) a bit fatter, and it somehow also really brings out the hairs on her arm.
The sand and edge of water (where water meets sand) look beautiful this way though.
Just out of curiosity, is the tilted horizon intentional? |
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05/28/2006 04:28:19 PM · #6 |
I like it! you have a very happy and relaxed model. As mentioned above the arm hair may be a little off putting to some? Its there, the model is happy with it and imho trying to hide/reduce it would detract from the image. I like the angle of the sea and think it would have been hard for your model to look so relaxed on the horizontal version (if you sea what I mean).
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05/28/2006 04:32:06 PM · #7 |
| Oh, I have no problems with arm hair, but it usually is not the first thing I want to notice about a picture :))) |
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05/28/2006 04:39:06 PM · #8 |
Thanks guys,
Yeah, I know the arm hair is there. The image is old and the model loved the photos at the time (was shot with a Nikon Collpix 950 in 2000).
I'm just messing with old images and trying to learn new editing styles to give the images more punch.
At the time, yes the horizon was intentional, I liked titled horizons as long as the weren't just slightly off. :-)
I have a bikini shoot Thursday with a VERY beautiful model. Just working with these now to see what PP I might apply to those later.
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05/28/2006 04:40:00 PM · #9 |
I agree with Ursula (about her being made to look fatter), specifically around the thighs - notice the "dark halo effect" there.
Here's a skin softening technique you might want to try ... instead of just applying guassian blur to the entire image do this:
1) Select just the skin tones (there are several methods, from using the magic wand, to using selective color, to painting in Quick Mask mode).
2) Press CTRL-J to duplicate the selection onto a new layer.
3) Here's the trick: just above your layers, just to the right of the word "lock" there is a square - if you hover over it, it says "lock transparent pixels". Click on that square.
4) Now apply your guassian blur or whatever skin softener action you like. The change will be applied to the layer you duplicated - and the lock transparent pixels will keep the change from spilling out onto the rest of the image (hence no "dark halo effect" around the thighs).
If you liked the dream like quality of the rest of the scene (and I did) then you might want to go ahead and reverse the masking process to apply your guassian blur to just the background as well - again locking pixels so that the background doesn't spill onto the model.
Anyway... give it a try and see if you like the results better with the the blur spilled onto the background or without. |
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05/28/2006 04:53:40 PM · #10 |
Thanks David, will have to try that.
Here's another one, I was a little less agressive with with the burning.
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05/28/2006 05:01:13 PM · #11 |
The areas that are bugging me on this second one are: The dark face (presumably from the blur of the sunglasses spilling onto her face), and the too dark areas at the top of her chest and on her right (top) thigh.
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05/28/2006 05:06:59 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by dwterry:
The areas that are bugging me on this second one are: The dark face (presumably from the blur of the sunglasses spilling onto her face), and the too dark areas at the top of her chest and on her right (top) thigh. |
See, it's the little booga-boos like that that bite me in editing. Thanks for the catches. That's why I'm playing with these things, to see what I do wrong :-)
Who know, I may get "good" at this one day... LOL... shhhh, don't tell my customers I don't know what I'm doing half the time ;-)
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05/28/2006 10:43:46 PM · #13 |
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05/29/2006 02:32:00 AM · #14 |
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05/29/2006 02:51:02 AM · #15 |
I wish I could offer you some feedback but I really don't care for that style in general (the glow look) and really don't spend much time looking at images that supposedly does it well. Not that you asked but the first photo I'm not liking her pose or the hair on her arm which stands out more do to your editing. I'd blur/glow that part out more.
Message edited by author 2006-05-29 02:51:39.
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05/29/2006 03:01:00 AM · #16 |
Is it posible for you to post orignal?
I mean is this effect you looking or you simply wanted to retouch and give it soft look.
Blurring has caused some halo effect unless thats what you were looking for. |
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