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Lorraine Senior Member Registered: September 2001 Location: Flemington, NJ Posts: 219 users gallery	In CS2, duplicated original and desaturated new layer. Overall level adjustments to darken photo. Created a copy of that layer to work on because I wanted to keep the original intact. Clone, copy/paste, despeckle, blur and add noise to remove/cover defects. Erased original background and created new one. Worked with multiple luminosity layers (CTRL/ALT/ ~) to lighten and darken areas of photo to enhance contrasts. Copy merged layers as I worked. Found a good photo of a girl with wavy hair. Copied and pasted sections of that photo over original hair. Smudged in stray hairs with #4 brush, opacity of 87%. Kept bringing portions of original photo back in at low opacity to maintain original features, especially the eyes, lips and nose. Applied gaussian blur to entire retouched photo, took snapshot, and undid gaussian blur. Used history brush set to blurred snapshot, low opacity, normal mode to go over skin areas that still looked uneven.
	· Date: 9/16/2005 · Views: 5293 · Filesize: 20.2kb, 90.8kb · Dimensions: 639 x 800 ·
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Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

9/16/2005 6:20am

This looks great Lorraine,
The extra work you put into the hair really shows.
I love the way you have pulled the fine strands.
I have been looking for a good hairbrush for a long time.
That blown out shoulder bugged me too.
Good job toning it down and retaining the original pattern.
Skin tones look great and you fixed the harsh shadow under her chin.

Matt

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Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

9/16/2005 6:37am

Thank you, Matt.

For some unknown reason, the "hair pulling" was fairly easy on this one. I don't normally have that much success with it. I worked the hair on a duplicate layer of the photo. Also, when I got a few strands that looked pretty realistic, I copied, duplicated and moved them around to create more. Also I blurred some of them to fade them out.

I, too, have been trying to find that perfect "hairbrush" that I don't think exists

Lorraine

Shalford
Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Solihull - United Kingdom
Posts: 67

9/16/2005 8:48am

Wonderful work Lorraine.

I couldn't agree more with Matt's comments.
Great hair, Great skin.
You have taken a lot of care with this, and it shows.
Brilliant!

Regards
Steve

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Steve

chanchalbd

Junior Member

Registered: March 2005
Location: Bangladesh
Posts: 10

9/16/2005 1:00pm

Great restoration Lorraine!
I like the hair's restoration very much ,its more real stick.
Face restoration is really nice.

Thanks.

Lorraine

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Flemington, NJ
Posts: 219

9/17/2005 2:21pm

Thank you both so much, Steve and chanchalbd.

Your comments really do make me feel very good.

Lorraine

Peth

Member

Registered: August 2005
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 44

12/12/2005 12:46pm

Really nice job Lorraine. I have to admit I've looked at this challenge before and chickened out. You've spurred me on! I'm really impressed.

non
Junior Member

Registered: November 2002
Posts: 7

3/2/2006 2:16pm

Wow great job. I like how you did the hair knowing it very difficult to do. keep up the good work.

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