Poser's - Focus on Imaging 06

[cmpowell125]

Good Evening.

Just spent the day at Focus for Imaging 06 at the NEC (Birmingham, UK).

Got quite a few snaps of this pair, had to bump up the ISO, i stupidly left my flash at home, didnt think I'd need it.

I've had a shot at cleaning the background up, very quickly but it looks fake. I shot in JPEG, So I know the WB is wrong, I didnt get long to play around.

Can anyone help with the PP point me in the right direction. I want to try and see if I can get the high-key look. White background.

The reddish one's the original, and the next is my 'attempt' (no laughing, well if you want )

The ORIGINAL IS HERE



C&C welcome, bear in mind the conditions were out of my control. Please feel free to play with the image, but please tell me what you have done. Any pointers? How can I improve the image.

Thanks.


Chris

[synapz]

i like the 1st one but the cut out of the girls in the second one could be better :S cant fault the pics tho, im just very fussy on things like that. Well Done on the pic and its a very good attempt at a cut, ive seen far far worst in my PS time. But like u said, u done it very fast. The only tip i can give u for cutting an image is zoom as fas as you can in and use the eraser tool to delete the bg. Take time tho otherwise you get raggidness like on the blond girls thigh. Get what im saying?

[cmpowell125]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah i know my cutting out is shocking, and was only done very quickly. I'll admit that

Just wondered what methods everyone use, as Iv seen many different ways to do it. and dont want to commit to one, spending alot of time, if its not the best.

The models were great. Managed to get alot with them looking directly at me.

[dengli]

I've been playing with CS2's "extract" filter with mixed success. Make sure you have an 8bit JPEG and then go filter-extract. Draw around what you want to extract and then fill using the tools on the page. You can clean up your selection using the eraser on the page.

When it works, it's brilliant

[cmpowell125]

I did have a play with extract, but it didnt behave too well

[synapz]

Different methonds

1. Eraser
2. Extract Filter
3. Magnetic Lasso
4. Poly lasso

I find eraser the best because you can use different sizes, smoothness, opasity etc for different types of images and sizes.

In your defence tho, cutting hair is a pain in the ass, ive never ever been able to cut hair out well, expetially womens hair!

[cmpowell125]

A few more from this pair. Again all got the horrible redness....So any help with correcting this. I've played with the levels which helps alot, but not done so on these images.





Shame somebody stepped in front of me in number 4!!

Thanks.

[synapz]

i quite like the redness because it gives a feeling of HOTNESS between the two of them. Imo

On a blackish/brown b/g the redness would give a fantastic image

[Jonny]

I had a quick play if you don't mind too much.

I was just looking at the girl on the left though, have you seen that red line across her waist? Has she been on a sun bed in her knickers?

[cmpowell125]

It was so much easier having models who knew what they were doing.

Thanks, yeah i tried a blackish background, looked good, apart from my rubbish cutting out. hehe. got a 'nice' blue glow around the girls.

I'm gonna master it one day...

[cmpowell125]

Feel free to play with them, i appreciate the feedback.

The redline, yeah, didnt notice it at the time. But got home and the G/F noticed it. Looks like a sunburn. Once I've picked the best one, i'll clone that out, shouldnt be to much of a problem.

[mgbeach]

definitely a cute pair! I selected carefully with the polygonal lasso and copied the pair onto a new square canvas filled with white. I duplicated the layer that contained them and ran a heavy box blur on the top layer. I erased through that layer with a 0-hardness brush, careful not to go to the edges. It left a fuzzy glow around them which is the best I could really do. Added a levels layer to bring up the midtones and highlights, and darkened the shadows a bit for contrast. Ran it through neat image on a strong setting and sharpened.

[cmpowell125]

Amazing. I like it. Right, im gonna have a go. I'll post my attempt later.

Thanks mgbeach.

[cmpowell125]

One attempt (different Photo though)

I used levels to correct the photo, then ran though NEAT image, sharpened, increased contrast and then used curves to blow out the background. All done with layer masks.

[fstop11.net]

If you left your flash at home.. Why didnt you pop over to the Photographer Monthly stand and photograph models with supplied studio lighting. Thats where I'l be

Good shots anywho :P