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I have posted both the unedited origional and my edit of my daughter. Since I got such great feedback and plays on my last image I posted, I thought I would try my luck at this one to. thanks in advance for your CC or play.
Jamie
 
I can't see how your edit can be improved... Well done

For any further editing I suppose one will have to change the style like sketches, mist, painting, smudges etc
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Sunshine

ps If you see someone without a smile on, give him one of yours... :)
 
Jamie

Your retouch is perfect so I just did a smudge and then changed shadows and highlights etc...

Hope they are ok

Best wishes

Ray



 
Those are gorgeous edits Ray (as usual)!

This is what I played with for lack of ideas on a perfect initial edit by Jamie...





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Best Regards
Sunshine

ps If you see someone without a smile on, give him one of yours... :)
 
Great smudges as always Ray! Really wish I had the patience to learn that talent. I really like the look of your edit as well Sunshineboy.......would you care to share your workflow?
 
Jamie Pelrine wrote:

I really like the look of your edit as well Sunshineboy.......would you care to share your workflow?

Sure...

I quite like the faint, misty look especially on portraits. I developed my own Action that prepares the various layers and leaves me to play with layer opacities. Also to create the main 'misty' mask on the completely white layer (top) that creates the misty effect. The mask is a radial gradient that I can position manually to my taste. The initial steps are: Increasing contrast, desaturating and sharpening. A History/Color layer is introduced to re-instate some of the color where required, and a Multiply layer to increase the final color depth if required. Quite fun playing with it actually.. :)

Here is the screen shot that shows all the layers and most of the Action steps:





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Best Regards
Sunshine

ps If you see someone without a smile on, give him one of yours... :)
 
I really hesitated to post my smudge painted version of the "oldest daughter" painting because Ray had already posted a beautiful version of the same subject. However, after I thought about it, it occurred to me that some viewers might be interested in seeing the stylistic difference between the paintings. I realize that subjective preferences will dictate how people respond to the style etc., of any portrait, so I am perfectly comfortable with people favorably responding to either style as it is compatible with their personal tastes and preferences.

I posted a textured and untextured version because because I think the untextured version gives the portrait subject a slightly softer look.





Pat
 
Thanks for sharing I had a play this was painting using mostly Corel Painter 11. I'm still a novice with painter but I am preferring it to photoshop.





marie
 
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