...and thank you for coming

First photo I processed in about 5 minutes, the last photo, I took the '5 minute edit' and added another 15 minutes to it, addind some details and textures.

Did I fix what was not broken?

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The colours really don't work for me in #1. #2 is superb.

Care to share how you did it?

Wow, the 2nd one is siiiiick. The colors make a lot more sense than the first one.

The texture is sweet on the second!

linarms wrote in post #4244212
The colours really don't work for me in #1. #2 is superb.

Care to share how you did it?

Yeah the more I look at the first the less I like it. It was a 5 minute edit so Ill make that as an excuse.

I bascily did color curves. Color select and desaturated the green significantly.
Adjusted brightness and contrast. Used a cloth texture, scratched metal texture and a grain layer, then gaussian blurred it a lil. Dodged his right hand. And slapped on my watermark.

Adam Trevillian wrote in post #4244220
Wow, the 2nd one is siiiiick. The colors make a lot more sense than the first one.

I agree too...thanks for the input.

Flo wrote in post #4244235
The texture is sweet on the second!

Thank you, Ive really been looking fo unique textures. Ive taken more pictures of walls, street, made scans of paper Ive waded up, cloth, blank negative film slides etc etc , than I have actual portraits.

Colors don't work in #1, too "odd" for a lack of better word.
#2 is great tho!

TSEE wrote in post #4246708
Colors don't work in #1, too "odd" for a lack of better word.
#2 is great tho!

normal/typical pretty is boring so odd I can actually take as a compliment. But I will say it is a bit much.Thank you

Definitely the second. Very nice work processing.

thanks

thekid24 wrote in post #4246717
normal/typical pretty is boring so odd I can actually take as a compliment. But I will say it is a bit much.Thank you

LOL I can definitely say it does NOT look normal/typical...just the colors look odd without anymore processing, like its a bit incomplete in the first one. But we all have different opinions on these things. I think #2 is just fabulous!

No difference of opinions here, I agree I like the second better.

Had to post this in a question and a pole as apposed to just say 'look I did better'.
It got me feedback and sparked a lil interest

i like the colors of the first but the texture of the 2nd ... sooo where is the "mix between the two" option haha

neil85 wrote in post #4247687
i like the colors of the first but the texture of the 2nd ... sooo where is the "mix between the two" option haha

since i have not created a "mix between the two"
there will not be a "mix between the two" option

Is a classic example of why I should spend more time in PP.

#2 without a doubt.