Mobster Wanna Be

An impromptu photo of my neighbor from Jersey who thinks he should have been cast in the Sopranos.

I added the smoke so I hope it looks authentic.

My first post ever in the people section

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First off.lol.he is drinking Bud Light:p

The T shirt is blown out...you can try to recover, but it will add heavy shadows to his arm outline...a faux Hill effect so to speak.It does bring out the stains on his T shirt

I would go for B&W, the sepia doesn't fit this guy to me?

Thanks Gail for the suggestions. I think the b/w suits him better also. Figured I would leave the stains on the shirt.

Think I will stay with shooting my birds and sports

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I know you will shoot more people( trying to stay in the Sopranos theme):p

he doesn't look that tough

haha, nice shot

Nice enough shot for sure, color a bit off - I like the B&W.

You put the smoke in there? Now that really looks good.

can you send me a link on how to add the smoke like you did...it would be useful for a halloween thing i am doing, thanks ahead of time.

BermyFunk wrote in post #6034223
can you send me a link on how to add the smoke like you did...it would be useful for a halloween thing i am doing, thanks ahead of time.

No link to send, just did it in CS3 on the fly. Opened up the original in PS. Searched the net for images of cigar / cigarette smoke and found one that looked usable. Opened that in CS3 and used the quick selection tool to select the the smoke. Cut and pasted it into the original and used the move tool to place it to the right of his face. I then used the clone tool to select wisps of the upper parts of the smoke to go from the cigar to where I placed the cut and paste smoke. Then used blending to change to opacity as needed.

Hope that helps. If you need any assistance feel free to PM me.

that will do thank you