Wow Bill, that's a lovely portrait but it sounds like a lot of work! Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" > Subject: Re: PESO: Another Overprocessed Portrait > > >> William Robb wrote: >> >>> Hi, this is Sammie again. >>> >>> http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/newer_still/4233.html >>> >>> I'm trying a few post processing techniques out. >>> >>> Techie stuf: >>> K7, 70mm LTD. ISO 100 f/8. >>> Illumination from one head in a beauty dish. >> >> Really, really good. I'd have expected a much more complex lighting >> setup than you indicate here. Do the post-processing techniques >> include the layer mask you were enthusing about a couple of days ago? >> :) > > Oh boy, lets see if I can remember. > I copied the background to a new layer and fixed as many of the zits and > skin flaws as I could in 20 minutes, then copied that layer twice. I ran two > different Portraiture filters, one on each layer and then adjusted the > opacity of each. I layer masked each layer and did some airbrushing on them > (eyes and lips), and then merged them. > Put a layer mask on that and did some more airbrushing (pretty much > everything but skin) and then adjusted the levels on the background to make > they eyes sparkle a bit. > Another layer was then hit with Gaussian blur and then the opacity brought > down to about 30%, another layer mask and more airbrushing. > Flattened that and then a B&W layer with adjustments and a colour cast > added. > At least that hits the high points. > I'll perhaps try to fix the hair, but I have a feeling that was just fall > off from the single light causing it. > > Thanks for looking and commenting to Dave and Dario as well. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
