reyjinn
01-29-2008, 05:10 PM
Decided to practise some post processing techniques on this snapshot my girlfriend took of herself and a friend at a party last weekend. All post work done in The GIMP.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reyjinn/2228113171/" title="Saga+Adda (after) by reyjinn, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2347/2228113171_dbd4d5f103.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Saga+Adda (after)" /></a>
Basic info: ISO 400, exp 1/60, apt f/4.5, focal lenght 33mm and on board flash was fired.
The original pic is here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/reyjinn/2228080251/in/set-72157603818263901/).
These are the step that I took.
First I used the lasso tool to select teeth and the whites of their eyes to lighten them up a little. Used Hue-Saturation; Hue was untouched, Lightness up and Saturation down. Don't recall the exact values but the eyes needed less than the teeth. Also used the clone tool to hide little faults in the skin.
Next I made a duplicate layer of what I had so far. Desaturated, inverted the colors and set the layer on overlay 100% opacity. That really lightened up both their skin tones and gave the background shadows a little more detail.
Then I created an empty layer on which I used the paintbrush tool (50% opacity) on areas I wanted to highlight or shadow. Chose Gaussian Blur with ~50 px and set the layer on overlay ~30% opacity.
The last step was creating two more duplicates of the background layer. Set one on hue and the other on saturation and both were at 50% opacity.
I am fairly satisfied with my first attemt but am wondering if there are some glaring faults that I'm unvilling to realise are there. So please if you have any advice on different techniques or additional steps let them fly.
Also I was wondering if any of you knew about a decent technique to get rid of those fuzzy little hairs people have. They can be seen on my girlfriends nose (the brunette on the left) and I really wanted to remove them but didn't know how to.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reyjinn/2228113171/" title="Saga+Adda (after) by reyjinn, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2347/2228113171_dbd4d5f103.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Saga+Adda (after)" /></a>
Basic info: ISO 400, exp 1/60, apt f/4.5, focal lenght 33mm and on board flash was fired.
The original pic is here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/reyjinn/2228080251/in/set-72157603818263901/).
These are the step that I took.
First I used the lasso tool to select teeth and the whites of their eyes to lighten them up a little. Used Hue-Saturation; Hue was untouched, Lightness up and Saturation down. Don't recall the exact values but the eyes needed less than the teeth. Also used the clone tool to hide little faults in the skin.
Next I made a duplicate layer of what I had so far. Desaturated, inverted the colors and set the layer on overlay 100% opacity. That really lightened up both their skin tones and gave the background shadows a little more detail.
Then I created an empty layer on which I used the paintbrush tool (50% opacity) on areas I wanted to highlight or shadow. Chose Gaussian Blur with ~50 px and set the layer on overlay ~30% opacity.
The last step was creating two more duplicates of the background layer. Set one on hue and the other on saturation and both were at 50% opacity.
I am fairly satisfied with my first attemt but am wondering if there are some glaring faults that I'm unvilling to realise are there. So please if you have any advice on different techniques or additional steps let them fly.
Also I was wondering if any of you knew about a decent technique to get rid of those fuzzy little hairs people have. They can be seen on my girlfriends nose (the brunette on the left) and I really wanted to remove them but didn't know how to.