help edit portraits

hi

i have shot some portraits with a canon 400d & f1.8 lens i do not have the skills to edit them in photoshop can you guys help me out pls see the pictures i need to get these printed and want to look very best . how do you guys remove wrinkles pls have a go at edting them cheers

click on the image to open cheers

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Why would you remove her wrinkles?! They are part of her and she looks wonderful......I like the first photo out of all of them the best...the middle two she looks depressed......

Flo wrote in post #4238782
Why would you remove her wrinkles?! They are part of her and she looks wonderful......I like the first photo out of all of them the best...the middle two she looks depressed......

I agree. Editing out blemishes and such are one thing since we don't always have them, but the wrinkles express a lot about her character.

Also, next time you're doing portraits, if you have the room, try to move your subject farther away from the background if you want to avoid those heavy shadows.

Canon, first you must turn on your "image editing ok" permission. That is done in your profile. Secondly, what are the images for? A spouse? Friend? Client? Will they want all the wrinkles removed?

Canon - after your image editing is turned on you might consider giving a link to the full image. The posted image when downloaded is about 180K - quite small for editing work, especially when you consider the 10 Meg you started with.

hi guys
sorry about the image editing not turned on , now its on and hear is the link to the images, these images are for a friend am not saying remove all the wrinkles but just make her look nice i had a go at one of them see what you think cheers...http://s72.photobucket​.com/albums/i171/siduk​/

the top image is the one i have done a bit of work on

Here is a quick edit I did while waiting for you to turn edit on. I chose the last image since it was the best overall portrait as far as pose, etc.

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I think all the original needed was a lightening and some contrast......careful about getting those teeth too white........and leave the wrinkles.she looks like she laughed them all there

I got better solution to removing wrinkles, try putting to add some emphasize on them and other parts of the face.
Robert

Robert, that is such a fantastic video...wow....what a technique........amazi​ng results.

hinson that is fantastic mate! can you give some tips how you did that and how did you change the background colour? cheers

Canon400 wrote in post #4244805
hinson that is fantastic mate! can you give some tips how you did that and how did you change the background colour? cheers

I was afraid you might ask that. I didn't track the steps but I used levels to brighten the image, brightness/contrast, then selected the face, deselected the eyes, nose & mouth, put the selection on its own layer and gaussin blurred. Then reduced the opacity until the image was softened but detail was not lost. Flattened image. Used sponge to reduce saturation of the background, blur tool to smooth out wrinkles, clone/healing to reduce the shadow behind her head. I cropped and then used the burn tool to add vignette. Used dodge tool to give some detail and lighten hair. After everything was done, took the image into liquify to trim the cheeks just a tad and open the eyes a bit. Somewhere along the line the hue of her shirt changed a bit so used the hue/saturation tool to change back to original shade. That along with the desaturation is what caused the background color to change. That's it to the best of my knowledge.