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somtim
Junior Member
Registered: January 2005
Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon
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Nice to work on something to get some detail from. fun project. I tried something new on this one. I had heard if you increase size in 10% increments you have very little loss in quality. I set up an action to do this and ran it 10 times. I am not sure if it worked but it was nice to work on a huge photo.
Lets see, healing brush, clone tool, and then sharpen tool around eyes, ears, and mouth. I made a selection of the soldier and blurred the bejeebers out of the background. Several applications of carefully painted overlays with different opacities. A levels adjustment at the end.
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| · Date: 1/31/2005 · Views: 4296 · Filesize: 27.7kb, 193.1kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1255 ·
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MBChamberlain
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Registered: November 2004
Location: Knoxville Tennessee
Posts: 281
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It is not true that resizing in 10% increments prevents loss in quality, in fact after the second interpolation you only have four pixels in the entire image that are original and undamaged. Everything else is just guessing at the midpoint between pixels that were already guessed midpoints. Long story short, bicubic resampleing can magnify existing detail, but the larger you make the image the more you damage it because you are just magnifying fuzzy details to make them fuzzier details no matter what method you use.
About your image, you did a nice job cloning and healing the damage to his face, but I think you may have severely oversharpened the image when you were done (see the hairline). His skin also looks very yellowish-green to me (about the color they paint sick people in cartoons). This might be because of the conversion to the #sRGB color space or it could be that you need to recalibrate your monitor.
The arts of retouching and colorizing are very subtle arts and it is REALLY easy to over do things. I think you have a lot of promise in this area. Just remember that less is more.
Michael
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams
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somtim
Junior Member
Registered: January 2005
Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon
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http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9622 I couldn't remember where I read the 110% increase but I found it. I am probably misunderstanding the resize issue and the applications for it. You seem to know what you are talking about, so I will leave images as-is. I, absolutely do not know how all this works and lay no claims to understanding it. I sure appreciate people who do though!
My ASD monitor is in good shape, it is probably my brain that needs calibration. I did a last levels check and worked primarily on his shirt. Big mistake as he is very green now that I look at it with fresh eyes.
Thanks for your feedback and encouragement Michael.
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MBChamberlain
Senior Member
Registered: November 2004
Location: Knoxville Tennessee
Posts: 281
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I know what you mean about fresh eyes. I always walk away from an image and let it rest over night so I can take another look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.
Michael
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams
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