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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

10/03/2007 01:11:27 AM · #1

Help! i need some advice on how to edit portraits and smooth the skin and make the eyes stand out a little more...like this photo here:
photo by JeffDay ( titled Allie Color).
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so please any advice on that would be greatly apprieciated.

ps. i have photoshop so if you know how to do these things on that editing software that'd be great! thanks!

Leanna

geoffb

10/03/2007 01:19:50 AM · #2

Smoothing skin in Photoshop

Making the eyes pop in Photoshop

Best of luck! :)

JeffDay

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

10/03/2007 01:27:36 AM · #3

I really didn't do much in photoshop, all I did was highlight the whites and the blues of her eyes with the paintbrush, set to overlay with opacity at 22% and the flow at 70%.

She has real soft pretty skin so I didn't have to do anything there. I do remember the lighting was lovely late evening, that helps.

Everything I learned I found here posted by

Brad

Hope it helps
Jeff

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

10/03/2007 01:32:00 AM · #4

Thank you so much!

TCGuru

Canon EOS-40D

10/03/2007 02:49:54 AM · #5

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Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX-DC HSM

10/03/2007 10:38:11 PM · #6

thanks to everyone!! man i love this site.. everyone is so nice and always willing to help!

:)

Shadowi6

Nikon D200

10/03/2007 10:48:16 PM · #7

Ive found this tutorial by

idnic, to be very helpful

Pimp those eyes

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

10/04/2007 10:02:07 PM · #8

okay so i tried and took everyone's advice and here's how my first two turned out...

(keep in mind i am NOT a photoshop professional..haha)

im going to fix the previous one and then repost it.

:]

Message edited by author 2007-10-05 00:13:20.

TCGuru

Canon EOS-40D

10/04/2007 10:13:23 PM · #9

Not bad!! Not bad at all! I would tone down the whiteness on the kid's eyes juuuuust a hair though. Otherwise, nice edits!!

JeffDay

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

10/04/2007 11:34:16 PM · #10

Yeah the bottom one is looking good, is that her natural color?

What lenses do you have, you don't have any listed.

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

10/05/2007 12:15:11 AM · #11

this is the original:

and i dont know... whatever lens that came with my camera when i bought it...

haha

TCGuru

Canon EOS-40D

10/05/2007 10:12:12 AM · #12

Should be the 18-55mm kit lens unless they were running a special ;)