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Nov 05, 2006 05:09 |  #1

So who'd like to have a go at making this shot look better??:D

And then tell me how you did it !! :p
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Nov 05, 2006 06:18 |  #2

Not much you can do with a jpg of this size but I gave it a shot.
I ran a sharpening filter first, then used noise ninja to smooth out the fuzzy pixels then reduced that effect by 50 percent, next I used a lighting effect filter with the focal point being at the left eye (his left).


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Nov 05, 2006 06:20 |  #3

Oh one more thing I was not using CS but was using PS 7.0


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Nov 05, 2006 07:46 |  #4

To me, it looked like you had a slight blue cast to the photo so I did some color adjustment using curves and applied some USM. Cute boy with a great smile!


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Nov 05, 2006 07:50 |  #5

BeccaNH wrote in post #2219220 (external link)
To me, it looked like you had a slight blue cast to the photo so I did some color adjustment using curves and applied some USM. Cute boy with a great smile!

Nailed it!!! The original looked as if AWB was used and as always... it was wrong. Nice color in this edit Becca.


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Nov 05, 2006 08:01 |  #6

I'm not sure of the look you're going for but my quick shot at it consisted of upping the contrast (via gaussian blur and overlay layer), adding more color saturation and a warming filter. The changes are subtle but better than the original IMO....

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Nov 05, 2006 10:33 |  #7

First I used the one step photo fix. I sharpened, saturated, removed digital noise, and I think that's about it. I don't know the techical terms. I just keep clicking things and undoing them if I don't like what I see....... I re-edited because there was just too much green.


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Nov 05, 2006 14:27 as a reply to  @ Cleo199's post |  #8

I blurred the background, to add separation of him from the background, using a combination of motion & also gaussian blur. I softened the bags under his eyes. I removed one of the two catch lights in each eye. ( there should only be 1 catch light in eyes) I whitened his teeth. And, I made it into a step-mount.

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Nov 06, 2006 05:28 |  #9

Oh so many to choose from! Thanks guys :0


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