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JBCaffrey
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Registered: April 2002
Location: Maryland
Posts: 60
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After several false starts I finally decided to replace the red channel with the green channel. After doing this I adjusted the color the best I could using Hue/Saturation/Lightness. I followed this with Auto Levels. All of this left me with a picture without the overall red cast, pretty decent contrast, but terrible skin color. At this point, I decided to colorize.
Before proceeding with any coloration I cleaned up the image using the Healing Brush and the Cloning tool. I then selected the right side of the man's shirt and put it on a new layer. Using Hue/Saturation/Lightness once again, I got as close a match as I could between the left and right sides of the shirt. I then blended the two sides together by applying a layer mask and blending the edges. I flattened the layers and began to over paint the shirt and skin tones on a layer with the blending mode set to color. When this was done, I switched from PS7 to PSP 7 and applied the clarify filter followed by the smooth filter to eliminate some of the noise. Switching back to PS7, I smoothed out the background using the clone tool, tweaked the contrast a bit and resized for the web.
Jim Caffrey
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| · Date: 7/23/2002 · Views: 7705 · Filesize: 59.8kb, 198.2kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1127 ·
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Keywords: Retouching challenge #17
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DJ Dubovsky
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Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659
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Overall, a very nice clean up and probably the only way you could attack this one. Not bad, since I think discolorations are nasty to deal with. The only suggestion I would add is to add a radial gradient or something to the background so it's not so plain. It would give depth to the image and blend better with them. Very good job.
DJ
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Doug Nelson
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Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,301
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Good repair job, but color looks a bit flat. Perhaps use of some additional colors on skin? Maybe some pinks or reds. Background is a total mismatch. His left hand seems to be glowing  Some blurry bits in details, as well.
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Dennis Povey
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Registered: February 2002
Location: nr Knutsford Cheshire England
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A great job, your colours are a good choice considering there were no originals and any minor faults are to be expected by even the best on a photo like this
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