All of you guys did a great job getting the subject to pop out! I decided to just do more of a fancy black and white conversion.
What I did:
-Cropped tightly around subject
-Cloned out mom's arm
-Curves adjustment (brightened)
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 30) twice
-Duplicated layer
-Gaussian blur of duplicated layer
-Overlay blend at 100%
-Flattened 2 layers
-Reduced saturation 90%
-Adjusted color balance (added some yellow, a little red)
-Sharpened a couple of areas (face and hands)
-Added borders
Nothing too imaginative from me this week, but at least I got some more practice with b&w conversion.
