Senior Photo: Aaron

[myang07]

I did a senior photo session for a friend's younger brother a couple weeks back. Here's the before/after photos and how I ended up with the final photo.

Before:


After:


How:
I started off with adjusting the brightness/contrast of the photo. Then a created a duplicate layer and applied a Guassian Blur at 10pixels. Then I changed the layer type to Soft Light and flattened the image. I made another duplicate layer and adjusted the Curve. I guess you could say the Curve line looked like an S shape. Then I created a new layer and did a black fill and changed the layer type to Hue and set opacity to 20%. I flattened the image again and adjusted Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Selective Color, and Levels. Once I gotten the image to what I wanted, I sharpened the image by going to Image>Mode>Lab Color and over by my Channels tab I selected Lightness. Then I clicked on Filter>Sharpen>Unsharpen Mask and set my Amount to 50% and my Radius to 10pixels while leaving Threshold at 0. Click on OK and click on Image>Mode>RGB. I think for this particular photo I did apply a vignette as well. With that I just created a duplicate layer, used my rectangle selection tool, create an outline very close to the edges, feather the edges to my liking and select inverse. Then adjusted the Levels of the selected area to my liking. And there you have it...before and after and how I did it.

[FoG]

The difference is amazing thank you for the how too I will be trying that on a couple of pics later in the week

[Turtlefish]

Wow, the finished product looks awesome! Thanks for sharing the how-to, I'm defiantly going to have to try that.