Help with retouching this pic of my daughter

[Bburg]

... hope you like it



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best regards

Volker
http://www.bahrenburg.de

 

[TZZDC26562]

Here's my renditions of your daughter:





















I look at her photo and I cant help feeling that there’s an underlying pain or anguish of some sort and I don’t mean to imply anything or cause trouble but she’s got the saddest look on her face, almost makes me cry just looking at her photo and thinking about it.
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[AL42998]

 

[AL42998]

before getting carried away with photoshop

 

[Pandora1]

What can I say but thank you to each and every one of you for taking the time out of your day/night to do wonders with the pic of Sophie.

I loved some of the comments I received as well. And no my feelings were not hurt when someone said they saw sadness in her eyes. I think that is one of the reasons I love this pic so much. In general she is a happy go lucky kid who loves to ride her horse and hates school with a passion. She is also my wifes best friend and a great little mate to me. Has been since she was smaller than my knees.
When she came out that morning I too noticed that look and raced for my camera.
Thanks again everyone. I LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE ALL DONE!
Now I have to go out and buy lots more frames LOL

Cheers

Jeff
Pandora1

 

[MarianBarbarian]

There are so many fabulous renditions of this photo in this thread! I love what you've done here. His daughter has such a natural beauty, and this is just so fun to look at. Very creative, and perfect for this particular picture.

 

[ats]

Have to really apprecieate all the input.. Got to see some real rendering ...

You guys really work well with Photoshop

Aravind

 

[orlando madariaga208090]

Sory if I arrived late,but here is a different view.



orlando

 

[Scott Deardorff]

Laurie - I like both this one and your last one (Fashion) a lot. Scott

 

[Isabel Cutler62850]

She is a beautiful young lady!

I've posted three images in a pBase gallery devoted to editing.

The first is yours, beneath which I've put some remarks about what I thought I had to do.

Click on "next" three times to see the progression of my experimentation.

http://www.pbase.com/isabel95/image/49361782

This was my favorite version:



Isabel
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[Stephen M. Alberts]

OK, a bit different, eh?

-Laurie

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Wow---like that one. Very captivating. Were the flecks an action, separate program or plugin?
Stephen M. Alberts

 

[N90 - D70]

although everyone has done a terrific job

 

[DigitalinDC]

the flecks were from the Ulead filters..I used the "snow" and turned it the pinkish color. The filters are freeware.

-Laurie

OK, a bit different, eh?

-Laurie

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Wow---like that one. Very captivating. Were the flecks an action,
separate program or plugin?
Stephen M. Alberts

 

[DigitalinDC]

-Laurie

 

[Pandora1]

I am just blown away by the response from everyone. Wait till I show Sophie.
Thanks again to EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff
Pandora1

 

[GGB]

Hi GGB

I am posting my version below despite yours which is brilliant.

Please can you tell me how youm got the colour and texture to the
face - it is the look I try to get - but don't!!

Best wishes

Ray

Thanks Ray. She is beautiful - the 'mood' is so mysterious.

For her skin, I used the healing brush in CS2 on separate layers with various opacities to remove the blemishes and color mismatches, clone tool at 10 & 20% to smooth the transitions, solid color adj layers using her skin color with a soft brush at 15% to balance the tone and added in some soft reds with a separate layer in color mode and light opacity. To increase the saturation, I use a black-to-white gradient map layer in luminosity mode. I finished with Neat Image on a separate layer, masking out those areas that I did not want effected and added light monochromatic uniform noise for the texture.
Hope this helps.

Cheers.

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GGB

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[mikes]

 

[Stephen M. Alberts]

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with a small splash of color.



Stephen M. Alberts

 

[Julio]

She's such a pretty young girl, it was a pleasure to work on the photo. Here are 4 versions... a straight retouch, a B&W version and 2 Color/B&W blends:
Original...

 

[Wizzo]

My go... Not sure about the eye's now...



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