What’s Your Preference?

Mad-Man · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2011, 03:59 AM

Hello,

First post here.
Ive been messing around with photoshop for some time now but never really started to learn it. Just started to learn to take pictures too. This photo doesnt show any good qualities in a photographer as you can see with the light on his face. But this couple asked me to take this photo at a wedding. So there was no real set up for the shot.
Ive been trying to learn different ways to retouch.Please let me know what you may or may not do differently. We all have opinions and some may like it and some may not.
Would love to hear any criticism.

Thanks everyone.

If you want to know how I did anything please let me know as I did a lot of different suff to this photo.

Liz Caldwell · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2011, 04:31 AM

You did a great job with the smoothing, but I find the color to bit a bit on the red side... Just a quick color adjustment should do it

Well done

EmyB · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-2011, 04:39 AM

I reckon the skin smoothing, crop and everything looks okay.

But I agree the white balance is off. I think it was correct in the first imade. The edited one looks pinkish.

And I think the lady's irises are a bit too bright.

Mad-Man · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2011, 04:54 AM

Ok, yeah the color was just a color tone. It was one of thoughs things where you keep working on it and changing things to see what works. Apperently it didnt work..

Thanks for the input though. To me it looked a little on the dark side due to the color tone that was added.
Thats funny about the eyes, I was thinking the same thing after I finished. Just never went back to change them. But if you didnt have the before I dont really think it would be that bad.

RKell6898 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-10-2011, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liz Caldwell

You did a great job with the smoothing, but I find the color to bit a bit on the red side... Just a quick color adjustment should do it

Well done

Besides the redness, I like the subtle fixes!

edbayani · #6 (**permalink**) 12-10-2011, 04:27 PM

I would have tried retouching the bright spot on the neck and chin but your retouching is good but on the red side. I'd do it something like this.

iboy · #7 (**permalink**) 12-13-2011, 04:08 PM

Edbayani,
How did you remove the bright spot? I like the results but would not have been confident in my PS ability to get to look right.

winterangel · #8 (**permalink**) 12-14-2011, 01:52 AM

How did you do the smoothing and brightening the iris? I am just starting to learn photoshop elements so the post production is a bit tricky for me as of now... Nice job on the pproduction.

edbayani · #9 (**permalink**) 12-14-2011, 05:55 AM

iboy, i selected the bright spot on the collar but i selected a bit longer towards the bottom. and with the eyedropper selected the color of the collar and filled the selection, deselected and fine tuned with the clone tool to smoothen the edges,
made a new blank layer and again with the eyedropper tool, selected the skin tone nearest the bright spot and with a small soft brush, opacity set at 10%, brushed on the new layer to cover the brightspot. fine tune with dodge and burn at low opacity. add a little bit of noise so that the painted areas are not so smooth. merge.