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09/11/2006 03:44:10 PM · #1 |
| The main place doing my son's school's senior portraits has added specs for competitors to match. It says that the head has to be 1 ¼ inches (from top of head/hair to bottom of chin. I assume that means in the proof. How do I do that? Is there anyway to alter it once the picture has been taken? |
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09/11/2006 04:24:23 PM · #2 |
i suspect what they are saying is that you need to take a headshot, and those are the specifications for the proof sheet to help you figure out how close you have to be to the subject. You could figure out what that means for distance between camera and subject (with whatever lens you hope to use) by guessing and testing, but I don't know anything about this area of photography so can't give you any specific advice.
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09/12/2006 12:02:08 PM · #3 |
Okay, here's my next silly question: Can I turn the white in the background of this picture tan?
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09/12/2006 12:17:20 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
Okay, here's my next silly question: Can I turn the white in the background of this picture tan?
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You mean like this?
Use rectangular marquee to select chunks of BG, then use "select similar" to get the rest of it, and touch up the selection with the marquee tool. Make a Selective Color adjustment layer and alter the color of the "neutral" component to get the splotches more brown/tan, then adjust the color of the blue and cyan channels to bring blue back in that part of the BG.
R.
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09/12/2006 12:26:11 PM · #5 |
I haven't done taken uniformly sized school pictures.
Zooming in or out changes the size. A zoom lens may make it easier.
With a fixed lens, you have to move your tripod in closer or back farther. Some viewfinders may possible have some crosshair markings for estimating the size.
Put masking tape on the two spots, to keep the distance constant, between the subject and the camera. It could be a rectangle to stand in and x's for the tripod legs.
Most graphics software can display rulers or grids overlayed on a picture. Or when resizing the image the increments can be changed from pixels to inches.
If they're going to be each, manually adjusted for size, I would make enough of the background "frame" larger, so it can be cropped after resizing.
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