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Old 10-30-2009, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by FormElement View Post
The background is the biggest killer. I swapped it out for a circular gradient and added some noise to it.

Then duplicated the base image, changed the layer style to overlay, ran a 1px high pass filter, masked the whole layer black, and painted the mask white at the eyes and hair highlights.
MUCH better. the background jumped out at me as kind of blah too....didnt contrast well w/ you. much more flattering now to bring out your skin tones
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