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Retouch #17 - Farron

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farron Junior Member Registered: August 2001 Location: Nashville. TN Posts: 15 users gallery	Well, I seem to have lost a good bit of detail in trying to pull out the red glare and dark shadows. Now it looks a bit like something that might have been a newspaper clipping...grainy. However, I think his face is a bit more visable. Using PSP7: Duplicated original. Fade correction set to 69. RGB Correction R<34>/G<9>/B<14> Levels Adjustment. Histogram Tool used to tweek curves, gamma & midtones. Layer duplicated and a threshold adjustment was used to create a quick mask for the people. Only slight cleaning was needed. Mask saved to alpha. Mask applied to image. RGB & levels corrected again on people only. People selection promoted to layer twice. Blend mode for the first Color and second Soft Light. Original layer desaturated. Merge/Flatten. Cleaned spots and scratches with clone tool. New layer. Tried a bit of dodge and burn brushes to kill dark and light spots. Softened select areas. Radial gradient applied to a new layer with brightest spot in lower right corner. Merge/Flatten. At this point I started selecting bits and pieces, saving selections along the way, and colorizing using manual color correction tool and/or paintbrush. All colorization of selections was done on separate layers, blend mode Color, opacities varied to suit. After that was completed, merged layers, ran through auto color, contrast and saturation adjustments without a lot of luck. Duplicated layer. Gaussian blur applied. Soft light blend mode. Lowered opacity. Merge again. Clarify. Resize. Unsharp mask. Save as jpg. That was as much damage as I could do to this sweet couple. _^..^_ Farron
	· Date: 7/28/2002 · Views: 7582 · Filesize: 46.5kb, 121.2kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1127 ·
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farron
Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Nashville. TN
Posts: 15

7/28/2002 5:04am

AKKKK!

Those shadows surely do look darker against this backdrop than they did before I uploaded....LOL!!

I see what Ed meant when he said he "didn't notice" until he posted. [wink]
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Farron

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Ed_L

Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: northwest Indiana, about 45 minutes from Chicago, IL
Posts: 2,824

7/28/2002 7:46am

Excellent job Farron. You sure did better than I at keeping the detail in the hair and face. If that right 1/4 of the image were just a little lighter, it would be near perfect. Super job.

Ed

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subbass

Junior Member

Registered: July 2002
Location: England

7/28/2002 3:54pm

Very well done on the general retouch, as has been said, if only you lightened that right hand 1/4, its even more obvious on the thumbnail

Great job on recolouring it, shows what a bit of time and effort can do rather than a rush job an hour past bedtime (like mine)

Good going.
Subbz

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Sharon

Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Everett, WA

7/28/2002 4:30pm

Great job on bringing out the colors.

Now if I could only find those smilies.

Sharon

DJ Dubovsky

Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659

7/28/2002 5:33pm

Excellent job of coloring Farron. You did a fantastic job on this one. From what I've seen this one was a difficult challenge.
DJ

Doug Nelson

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Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,301

7/30/2002 10:26am

Colors are excellent. Just that slight bit on the right is (wait for it) too dark

Excellent description.

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farron
Junior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Nashville. TN
Posts: 15

8/1/2002 2:06am

LOL,

In colors, tones and shadings...just like the rest of my life, I never seem to obtain balance.

I rush from one extreme to the other. Too light, too dark...heehee! The day I get one something [anything in life] right there in the middle, everyone please sit up and cheer. hahaha

Nite!

_^..^_
Farron

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