What’s Your Preference?

areeffbee · #1 (**permalink**) 04-27-2009, 09:01 PM

Whew ok, so this one took a lot of work (which I'm sure you're familiar with), but in the end, I'm ecstatic with how it came out.

I'm just going to do an overview of how it came to be an after.
The first photo is the before but it was missing my nephew, Jackson. So the second photo is of him standing in the same spot a week later.

Steps not in order, probably. It's been a while since I worked on this.

I blurred the backgound
Cropped
Whitened teeth (lasso the teeth to select them then took out shades of red & yellow. Then brightened those shades.)
Painted (opacity 15ish) people's faces to take away blemishes, wrinkles, redness, ect.
Replaced Grandma's head with a shot from another photo that I took that day. I had to rotate it & do some coloring so you couldn't see the seams.
Did the same with Kenny's head. (The one pointing at you.)
Speaking of his pointing, he was playing with a teddy bear that covered his face. So I copied the pattern of my Aunt's blouse to cover up that little flaw. Painted it to match
Umm...let's think now... oh! My Dad (goatee man) wasn't so smiley so I replaced his goatee w/ a more friendly one.
Last but not least, I put Jackson up in that photo (Copy & paste into). I had to make him bigger (image size) and blur his toes. It's not the best job of putting in a person, but it will work for my family as long as I keep the secret flaws hidden.
If you read aaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll of this. Thank you. You're nice. Hope you enjoyed the tour of Easter Family Madness.