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Indian Bride - Exclampt
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ExclamPt
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Registered: January 2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 92
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This is my first submission to RetouchPro, a wonderful Internet site. This challenge caught my attention because I love Edward Curtis' photos and my wife works with American Indians in this region.
I used PS 7. For me, this was an exercise in selection. I made an alpha channel for each color, using the pen tool to select the objects for that color. In cases where an object was adjacent to an object already done, I overlapped selections then subtracted the selection already done in order to get a clean edge.
I then colorized each channel using color blend mode and varying opacity until I liked the effect.
In some cases, I varied the brightness of the original photo to create more even color or lighten areas.
I will be interested to hear what my wife's clients think of the color choices.
I did disobey orders and retouched the background. Sorry, but I couldn't resist.
This project took me quite awhile. There has to be a faster way! Any suggestions would be much apprectiated.
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| · Date: 4/6/2003 · Views: 6303 · Filesize: 55.4kb, 107.7kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1069 ·
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Keywords: Colorized Indian Bride Curtis Exclampt
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philbach
Senior Member
Registered: March 2003
Location: Seabrook Island, SC
Posts: 1,171
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A very nice retouch. I agree with you that the background needs to be colored for completeness. I can't imagine a fast way of doing this project.
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Phil
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vijayan
Member
Registered: January 2003
Location: Trivandrum, India
Posts: 73
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Very good work. that brownish hair colour add something to the charector.
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Thanks,
Vijayan
vijayan@nova-concepts.com
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TwinbNJ
Senior Member
Registered: February 2003
Location: NJ
Posts: 375
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Wonderful job - the colors are very natural. This was a time project to say the least --- and what a choice for your FIRST sbumission! Hope to see more of your work.
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Jill
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phili1
Senior Member
Registered: March 2002
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 237
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Its up there with the best, nice job.
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TwinANJ
Senior Member
Registered: February 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 117
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What a challange to submit as your first! I found this to be the hardest challanges I attempted. You did a beautiful submission and as my sister stated I look forward to seeing more of your work. Welcome to all of our addiction!
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ExclamPt
Member
Registered: January 2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 92
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Thank you all for your kind and encouraging comments. I will be less shy about submitting in the future.
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bmcollier
Junior Member
Registered: July 2003
Location: Houston
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You did a great job here. I keep coming back to this one as one of my favorite on the whole site.
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mhkitty8880
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Registered: August 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 44
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Wow, that looks awesome! How did your wife's clients like the colors?  I think it looks great! -Meg
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Addicted to Editing!  
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