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05/03/2007 12:29:56 AM · #1 |
I bought some black cloth, put it up and asked my wife to pose. I got some great shots I think. This is one of the ones I liked personally, as overexposed as the right side might be. Unfortunately it looks like she has a black eye. I tried dodging it, or lightening it up, but nothing. What's a good way to get it to look natural.
Message edited by author 2007-05-03 00:32:20. |
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05/03/2007 12:35:00 AM · #2 |
| Do you have another picture from your shoot that she [face] is posed in a very similar way? If so what editing program are you using? |
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05/03/2007 12:40:11 AM · #3 |
| I don't have another shot of her in that position...but I do have the RAW file. I'm guess (correct me if I'm wrong) that I should use lightroom to create an underexposed photo or play with the tones until I get something more natural looking and then clone in CS2? |
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05/03/2007 12:43:00 AM · #4 |
I don't know anythging about RAW.
If it were me, working from a non-raw file, I would just clone in a new eyelid. I don't think lightning / dodging is going to help at all. |
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05/03/2007 01:37:07 AM · #5 |
how about darkening the whole area. Adding in a shadow from above
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05/03/2007 02:14:58 AM · #6 |
| You could mirror the shot and rotate it to fit the right eye in the left position. Adjust the lighting. |
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05/03/2007 02:41:02 AM · #7 |
How much do you like the shot? Do you like it enough to shoot it again? It would probably be easier and more satisfying to re-shoot with better lighting.
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05/03/2007 02:52:08 AM · #8 |
The patch and healing tool works best for this. Here is a quick editing using it and also the stamp tool to bring down her eyelid a little.
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05/03/2007 02:56:37 AM · #9 |
Not perfect, but I think an improvement:
used the clone tool in "lighten only" mode to remove most of the dark spot under the eye, then smoothed with the sumudge tool. Also used smudge to drag some color dowm from the upper eyelid into the dark eye, to make it look like both eyes are closed or looking down.
So yes, I think it could be fixed with more time and talent than I can offer; which is to say not all that much... |
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05/03/2007 05:39:19 AM · #10 |
Thanks for the replies. I'll see if I can do the same.
I will also try retaking the shot when I get the chance. For now I'm just looking at editing the shots I already have. |
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