Specific Improve Pic

[Philipp0816]

Can you please remove the shiny spots on my face (especially on my glasses and lips) and also make a good black and white picture out of it, which is not too dark and can be used as an application photo.
If you have any other ideas to improve the picture, you are welcome to do so.

 

[Rich54]

Here's my try.

(Note, the color attachment looks a little more saturated here than it does when I open the image in Photoshop itself. That may be due to differences in how the file viewer treats images.)

 

[thebestcpu]

Rich beat me to it. Here is my renditions color and B&W
Note that for the purpose you are using the image, it may not matter since it is small, yet the image provided has a pretty high level or JPEG compression and those artifacts really show up when you zoom into the image.
John Wheeler

 

[Rich54]

Rich beat me to it.

My city is shut down and I'm indoors 23 hours a day with nothing to do, so for the last few days, when these requests come along I jump on them.

 

[Dormeur74]

The original photos are available (5600x7500 px).

 

[MarkZ]

(Note, the color attachment looks a little more saturated here than it does when I open the image in Photoshop itself. That may be due to differences in how the file viewer treats images.)

True This is because web browsers display images differently: Some browsers use the images color profile in an attempt to display the image properly, some don't.

Profiles (the only two sensible ones for web display are sRGB or at-a-push Adobe RGB) these sometimes get removed for some reason, and images are 'unprofiled" . I'm not sure of that is the case on this forum. Most people seem to post images in their monitor profile, which suggests that they have taken an screenshot.

 

[Philipp0816]

Thanks a lot for all your help!