Daughter's School Picture

Thank you! I never know how much to sharpen the image. I don't want it to look overdone. I really appreciate you including what you did to the photo as well.

Lena

Too much eye makeup and too much contrast on the original post.

LenaWood wrote in post #2055264
I never know how much to sharpen the image. I don't want it to look overdone.

View her eyes at 100% magnification while you make adjustments with unsharp mask. When it looks like you've gone a bit too far, save and print!

Hellashot wrote in post #2055274
Too much eye makeup and too much contrast on the original post.

Daughter is in that "eyeliner" phase and mom doesn't know what she is talking about when I tell her to lesson it. One day she will learn. When it is time for her senior pictures (this spring), I will be taking her to someone to have her make-up professionally done...maybe THEN she will understand what I am trying to tell her now.

Thanks for your comments.
Lena

Curtis N wrote in post #2055307
View her eyes at 100% magnification while you make adjustments with unsharp mask. When it looks like you've gone a bit too far, save and print!

Thanks for the tip!

I like the orginal.

I hope my daughter is unsatisfied with her school pics nad asks me as well...The hardest customers, are your family!

LenaWood wrote in post #2055264
Thank you! I never know how much to sharpen the image. I don't want it to look overdone. I really appreciate you including what you did to the photo as well.

Lena

No problem. The first one (10/70/0) is not totally nessacary, it just increases the contrast of the picture slightly. The second one (250/0.3/0) is the one that makes a real difference.

Oh, I forgot, I also did an eliptical marquee (feather 100) around the central part of the picture - her head was encompassed by the 'marching ants'. I then inverted the selection and made a level adjustment layer. I set the middle input to 0.8. This darkened the area around her while her face and body remained the same.

If you don't understand, I can make a few instructional pictures in photoshop.

Andrew.

I understand, thanks for the explaination. She likes the photo as it is, BUT that doesn't mean that I can't play with it.

Lena