Prom girls

tony gant · Jun 28, 2007

Hi guy's,I just shot this today and would like to add "a little something " before i get it printed so that the girls can have something special to remember their big day,

Thanks in advance and here is a link to the full size original if anyone requires it,
http://www.pbase.com/tonygant/image/81322408

best regards

Tony

JClaude · Jun 28, 2007

Here is my go

If you like it, I can either, do it in the large version or try to get some guide of what I did together. The background could be cleaned up, a bit of work but it would be doable, like eliminating that lamp on the right side. The girl on the left, what color is her dress ??

Before

After

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tony gant · Jun 28, 2007

Thanks ,i love the eyes,i think you got the dress almost right,maybe a little less blue ,it will be nice to see it printed to compare with the original,

thanks

Tony

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Samuel Briggs · Jun 28, 2007

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mancitmis · Jun 28, 2007

My attempt.....great pic by the way.

Mike

laura23 · Jun 28, 2007

Great job, Sam! Nice background...

mancitmis · Jun 28, 2007

Sam,

Fantastic as usual..........they'll be over the moon with this one.

Mike

djohnson381103 · Jun 28, 2007

origonal:

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Autie · Jun 28, 2007

Sam, loved what you did. I'm kinda new to the retouching world. could you give a quick overview of how this was achieved?

djohnson381103 · Jun 28, 2007

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suddie1215 · Jun 28, 2007

The image was very well exposed so I only did a few hopefully subtle changes:

Adjusted colors
Removed flash glare from faces
Whitened teeth and eyes
Applied some virtual "double sided tape" to the girl on the left.

Unfortunately they were posed too close to the wall so their shadows fell directly onto the wall but they can be removed with some careful cloning.

joe604 · Jun 28, 2007

Removed all freckles (guessing that's what the girls would prefer)
Smoothed skin
Reduced shine on cheeks
Whitened teeth
Enhanced eyes
Pulled down the bright dresses (that sounded awkward, didn't it)
Color balance to reduce some of the red in the faces
cleaned background

full size available
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lylejk · Jun 28, 2007

More playing.

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GCam · Jun 28, 2007

some cloning> sel col adj layer> imagenomic portraiture. gc

Samuel Briggs · Jun 28, 2007

mancitmis said:
Sam,

Fantastic as usual..........they'll be over the moon with this one.

Mike

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Samuel Briggs · Jun 28, 2007

Thanks

I start by using the Pen Tool to draw paths around the objects/persons while staying away from hair that I will take care of later. Here is what the path that I used looks like:

Next, I use channel masking to mask the hair. I choose a channel that has decent contrast between the hair and the background and duplicate it. I turn the path into a selection and fill it with white (or black) while on the duplicate channel, (depending on what the channels contrast look like--you can always invert the black and white values later on). I then increase the contrast between the hair and the background. Then its just a matter of using the dodge & burn tools to refine the mask. Here are a couple of links that talk about masking:

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov
http://porg.4t.com/Masks.html

Here is the mask I used:

After that I created my new background with Digital Anarchy's Backdrop Designer and Digital Film Tools Light:

Autie said:
Sam, loved what you did. I'm kinda new to the retouching world.
could you give a quick overview of how this was achieved?

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Conrad Birdie · Jun 28, 2007

tony gant said:
Hi guy's,I just shot this today and would like to add "a little
something " before i get it printed so that the girls can have
something special to remember their big day,

Thanks in advance and here is a link to the full size original if
anyone requires it,
http://www.pbase.com/tonygant/image/81322408

best regards

Tony

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Since this is a large file, I won't post it here. Here is my link to my attempt for you.
http://www.pbase.com/brw_2909/image/81335152

My touches to this are very slight at best. I tried cloning out the hot spots on the faces. Added some sparkle brush effects to the jewelry. Cloned out the item on the right hand side behind the young girl on the right side of the photo. And straightened the back picture to more vertical alignment.

Very small changes because the picture is very good as is.
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Conrad Birdie · Jun 28, 2007

Conrad Birdie said:
tony gant said:

Hi guy's,I just shot this today and would like to add "a little
something " before i get it printed so that the girls can have
something special to remember their big day,

Thanks in advance and here is a link to the full size original if
anyone requires it,
http://www.pbase.com/tonygant/image/81322408

best regards

Tony

Click to expand...

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Since this is a large file, I won't post it here. Here is my link
to my attempt for you.
http://www.pbase.com/brw_2909/image/81335152

My touches to this are very slight at best. I tried cloning out
the hot spots on the faces. Added some sparkle brush effects to
the jewelry. Cloned out the item on the right hand side behind the
young girl on the right side of the photo. And straightened the
back picture to more vertical alignment.

Very small changes because the picture is very good as is.
Conrad 'Bye Bye' Birdie
'Aspire to inspire before you expire'.

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I also corrected part of the dress of the girl on the right that was slightly showing.
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seknsak · Jun 28, 2007

Mike - I have never seen this affect before. What software did you use?
Steve

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