Besides the basic correcting, there a million things you can do with a picture. I'm on a muted-colors/vintage kick and so I chose to turn mine into this:
This is one of my absolute favorite things about photography and editing: the ability to turn nothing into something. There are many times things come out brilliantly straight out of the camera (SOOC) but sometimes they don't. If you know what you're doing, you can take a photo you never thought you would like, into a photo that you love and would hang in your home.
Some highlights of what I did (I know I should have been making notes step-by-step so I could share but I forgot):
-First and foremost, I used the healing tool to get rid of his little blemishes
-Curves adjustment to lighten it up
-Sharpened
-Added a skin tone layer to smooth the face out and then lowered the opacity
-Added a layer mask to the skin tone later and erased the eyes so the blue would shine back through
-Adjusted the channel mixer but checked monochrome color to get a nice b&w effect and then lowered the opacity of that layer to about 70.
-And finally, I adjusted the levels and the contrast.
9 comments:
What a cute little booger huh?? I love what you did with his eyes, they really sparkle back at you!!
What program are you using?
That would be my question too, what program are you using. I am still looking to purchase one but have not made up my mind.
And.... I like the pics black and white much better than the color one. You did well!!
I'm really excited that you introduced me to this blog. It look like I will be able to get all kinds of great tips from it.
You did a wonderful job with gimp. what do you do to smooth out the skin? I am using gimp too, but have not found a good way to even out the skin.
Love GIMP! I use it in combination with the cropping guide and effects of Picnik. I forgot to use the sharpen tool in GIMP this week though, duh! I like your sharpened and desaturated images!
I learn more from I Heart Faces everyday - now I have to try out GIMP along with PS CS3, PSE6, Capture NX and others. Nice job on the coloring and the cropping - love those eyes.
Oooh, thanks for the details on how you edited that pic! I'm brand new to this whole photo-editing thing so I'm totally in the same boat with experimenting and all that. I still haven't even figured out what a channel mixer is. This was very useful!
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