portrait edit

[thedirtyknapkin]

this was something i did for someone on a photography forum

i think it turned out pretty well

 

[Paul]

Nicely done, just slightly over processed in my opinion though (only slightly).

 

[AbdulW87]

very nicely done...did you use the HDR toning adjustment or other adjustments (like levels, colour balance etc)

 

[Dataflow]

looks good 1 crit would be the dress looks to bright.
i would tone down the red/pink saturation

 

[5600k]

Thats great work. I like how youve paid attention to detail on grad-ing the dof on the grass and all.

 

[thedirtyknapkin]

thank you

most of the color adjustments were done in lightroom, where i brushed over the part of her that was in a shadow, and increased the exposure of that area. then i warmed it up a bit in, increased contrast and saturation, sharpened it, and moved it over to photoshop

in photoshop i duplicated the base layer and made a mask on just the skin. to that i applied a slight surface blur, to smooth the skin, and brushed out the fine details, ear, nose, lips, etc. then i applied an add noise filter to that with a very small amount of uniform monochromatic noise, to add texture.

then i found a picture on google images that roughly matched the lighting, and that the fence wouldn't look out of place in. and i ut it in the background, and masked out the background. the refinnd edge tool helped here, but it also got rid of much of the blown out white hair

 

[Smokey2011]

i think it looks good. I wouldn't know it was an edit.

one thing: lower the exposure just a bit on her butt. (directly under her left elbow).

 

[thedirtyknapkin]

thank you

most of the color adjustments were done in lightroom, where i brushed over the part of her that was in a shadow, and increased the exposure of that area. then i warmed it up a bit in, increased contrast and saturation, sharpened it, and moved it over to photoshop

in photoshop i duplicated the base layer and made a mask on just the skin. to that i applied a slight surface blur, to smooth the skin, and brushed out the fine details, ear, nose, lips, etc. then i applied an add noise filter to that with a very small amount of uniform monochromatic noise, to add texture.

then i found a picture on google images that roughly matched the lighting, and that the fence wouldn't look out of place in. and i ut it in the background, and masked out the background. the refinnd edge tool helped here, but it also got rid of much of the blown out white hair

the one step i forgot to include was the field blur on the background, it's one of those new to cs6 blur tools, and it worked ok, i guess. it looks pretty good, but i got a little frustrated because i don't think you can delete a point after you set it, so i had to hit escape and restart multiple times while doing the blur

 

[thedirtyknapkin]

just did something else with this



i decided to open it up a bit

but, im thinking i just put a lot of work into this for a mediocre result

i had to extend the fence, which was difficult because of the perspective