Image Help - - Beautiful and lots of potential

AtlanaAnna · #1 01-24-2007, 09:11 PM

This picture has a lot of potential. It's a beautiful picture. Here's the original and my first attempt at some color correction. Help me please. Thank you.

Sylvia

DCobb · #2 01-24-2007, 10:08 PM

I gave this a try. Starting with your corrected image I took it into a program called Focus Magic and used a setting of 4. Then I changed the color mode from RGB to LAB and did some adjusting using curves on the a and b channel. How much to correct is always very subjective. Did a final color correction back in RGB and used the HUE/SAT to adjust the yellow and red. I am not a professional retoucher so my work flow my leave a lot to be desired.

dc

mistermonday · #3 01-24-2007, 10:54 PM

Sylvia, I focused on the color correction by doing a levels adjustment to cool yellow / green cast down (on the original). You did real well on the cracks and spots so I only did 60 secs of cleanup and then stopped.
Regards, Murray

albatrosss · #4 01-24-2007, 11:29 PM

Level adjustment, hue and saturation, a little cloning and hi pass filter

AtlanaAnna · #5 01-25-2007, 12:01 AM

Wow! I'm totally amazed by the results you all achieved! I'm off to play around with some of your techniques. Thanks!!!

zganie · #6 02-09-2007, 09:53 AM

I did a slect color range then adjusted with hue saturation
retouched it quickly and did a little burning on the edges
hope this helps
zganie

Lasa · #7 02-09-2007, 10:51 AM

Great picture.. too bad somebody put so much blush on the picture, strange?
Anyway i didn't clean up the image at all just played with the colors..
used the level to even out each channel..that almost did it..added a little hue/sat. to taste.

another way to get started:

If you want to try something interesting...duplicate the original picture layer.
on the copy layer go to BLUR / Average. it will turn it some goldish color.
The invert the color. (crtl+I). Change layer mode to color and lower opacity to 40-50% then add a hue/sat adjustment above the average layer Master, hue-8% sat +25%

or

Use variations (Image/adjustment/variations)
In default Midtones:
more blue, more red, more cyan, more red, more cyan..
you can fine tune it with the fine - course slider..once you get the hang of it....it's a fun tool.

Lasa

CJ Swartz · #8 02-09-2007, 12:15 PM

She's such a lovely subject, that I want my turn -- used Selective color to remove some of the yellow from the reds and reduced the cyan and yellow channels to remove the greenish cast in shadow areas. I love warm tones, so her hair comes out redder than some folks work

I did separate work on reducing the red blush (again with Selective color on a masked area) and added an overall curve to add contrast.

Peter S · #9 02-09-2007, 04:19 PM

Like CJ I had to have a go at this one.
Removed colour cast by sampling it and creating a layer filled with sample colour. Inverted this layer, changed blend to colour and faded down quite a bit.
Used clone and healing brushes on cracks etc.
Ran through Lucis at low level just to emphasize the shading, adjusted levels, sharpened slightly and cloned out some of the sharpening halos that looked too much.

Peter

NYBOB · #10 02-09-2007, 05:12 PM

Here is my try,curves,hue/sat.cloning.sharpen.

Bob

AtlanaAnna · #11 02-09-2007, 10:37 PM

C.J. You are amazingly talented with this software! Do you teach a class?!!! She is gorgeous!

Sylvia

CJ Swartz · #12 02-09-2007, 11:39 PM

Sylvia, I think it's a combination of this lovely image and our color tastes running along the same lines -- I have been learning Photoshop for many years, and I still have a lot to learn compared to some other folks here, but I'm very happy that you like my version!

As far as teaching, I do have some teaching background, and I will certainly try to share any skill or knowledge that I can claim with you or anyone else who is serious about learning. I have been very impressed with your continued eagerness to practice and learn, and your continued improvement.

I think that I've posted links for you before to Vikki Hansen's work, but we can never link too many times to someone with her skills.
http://www.pbase.com/vhansen/makeovers

AtlanaAnna · #13 02-10-2007, 01:43 AM

Thank you for the encouragement, C.J. This forum is an incredibly friendly and supportive resouce for anyone working with this software or trying to learn this software.

Sylvia

Cassidy · #14 02-10-2007, 08:42 AM

agree aa, a great mob here

philbach · #15 02-10-2007, 01:15 PM

I switched to cymk mode and used levels on the individual channels which helped some then I went to RGB and used selective color adjustments. It seems to me that the original photo was tinted. Right at the hairline at the forhead it appears that there was a light brown pigment used to colorize the hair.