I can not get the shadow off my face

[katcooper81278]

I can not get the shadow off. It looks crazy when I try any idea? I want to print this off to hang in our house, but I cant get it to look normal. I am ver new to this. I can't even get my pic to upload!!! HELP

[mistermonday]

To upload your pic when you are in the entry mode, or edit mode, click on the Advanced button and scroll down the p[age till you see a button called "Manage Attachments". Click it, browse to find the image you want to upload. Please be sure to resize your image in advance to <100KB max size limit (200KB for Patron members), or host your image somewhere else on the internet and post a link to it. An attachment is preferred.
Regards, Murray

[katcooper81278]

Thank you Murray. I think this might work http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/h...t=Oct30090.jpg

[mistermonday]

The Photobucket image is tiny. There appear to be shadows on both the man and the woman but image is tooo small to see the detail. What software do you have? The shadows do not look to dark so you should be able to easily brighten them with a Shadow / Highlight adjustment or just a curve, or worst case a Dodge layer.
Regards, Murray

[John Wheeler]

Hi Kat (St Louis?)

Very cute picture of the family

Murray always has the best advice. It really does make a difference depending on the software that you have.

One thing to keep in mind is that if the end result that you want is a print hanging on the wall, you could always find a retouching service you trust to do the work. No need to put the frustration/learning curve in between you and the final result unless that is what you want right now.

Attached at the bottom is an enlarged example of what I did side by side with the original. This was done in Photoshop (using some of the techniques Murray mentioned and some other techniques)

- Masked area to change using Quick Select tool (tolerance set to 0)
- Added Curves Adjustment Layer and increased brightness
- Used the Refine Mask tool to adjust edges of the mask
- Painted on mask where refine mask did not do the job
- Did some Dodge and Burn to improve the match where needed
- Where colors were off some, just sampled on the daylight side of your face and then painted with Blend mode of Color (changes color yet preserves the luminosity)

There are many approaches in Photoshop to do the same job. A more advanced retoucher may have a simpler approach than I described.

I did not spend a lot of time on it and note that getting something close with a very small compressed image is easier than a high quality high resolution image yet the steps are similar. Hope this is useful.

Oct30090-SWF.jpg

[katcooper81278]

Ok, so I'm thinking that I will not be able to do this yet. We have photo shop 7. I am looking for into classes. We are Army, so I hope to find a class on post. With my husband gone a lot its hard to get into it. I think it is goingto take some time to get this, but I am going to keep at it. Thanks for your help, I will take any that I can get!!

Katherine

What made you ask STL??

[John Wheeler]

Originally Posted by katcooper81278

What made you ask STL??

Just a long shot based on what I believed was a similar screen name that I had seen before of a person who had posted pictures elsewhere. Like I said, a real long shot.

[katcooper81278]

C:\Users\JC\Pictures\2011-10-30 Oct 30\Oct 30 090.JPG

Does this open??

[katcooper81278]

Like I said.. Im new! LOL

[John Wheeler]

Hi Katherine

No, that does not open.
Best way I have found is to either use the Save for Web command (not sure that is on PS7) or resample image so that it is less than 800px on a side and then use the JPG compression level that gets the image below 100K. Then use the paper clip icon in the posting window header which will let you browse and then upload your image to ReTouch Pro. Once uploaded, go back to the paperclip and click on the uploaded image name and it will paste into your post and then display as a thumbnail. Hope that was not too confusing.

[katcooper81278]

Ok, I can't do any of that. I think I will need to take a basic computer class also. All I know how to do is email a pic.

[0lBaldy]

Katherine, Welcome to RetouchPRO
Hope you enjoy your stay here and make lots of friends.
Poke around, have fun!

If you use Photoshop 7 you can post fairly large pictures which are under 100k using the 'save for web' function in Photoshop as described here:
Size, Quality and/or Format your Attached Images.. (Click here)

How to attach Files/Images to your Posts or Threads:
(Click here)

If you want to post a larger resolution that is over 100K then you can host your image elsewhere and attach a link in the thread (as you did here...except, link to the highest resolution.. or the largest size you can upload), but also please attach an under 100K version so the thread remains useful in the future, regardless of external links.
Other Hosts if you do not have your own site:
ImageVenue.com (3Meg max, free) pixentral.com (2Meg max, free) Photobucket.com (1 Meg max free, 5 Meg PRO) mediafire.com (100 Meg per file, free) dropbox.com/tour (2GIG, free) post a link in the thread to the site that is hosting the larger image. (link to the highest resolution.. or the largest size you can upload)

A beginning start might be to copy the background layer and change the new layers mode to screen... hold down the Alt key and click on the mask icon @ the bottom of the layers Menu (Square with a circle in it) .. This should give you a big black box beside the screen layer.. enlarge the image so just the Lady's face is showing and paint with a small white soft brush over the shadow you want brightened.. paint with black paint to correct any goofs.. after each stroke if it seems to dark or bright you can always use the Edit>Fade tool to fine tune the brush stroke... if there are areas that are not quite right then you might use the healing brush tool.... take your time and practice cubed... you can do it!... To darken the children I just used the key combination Shft+Ctrl+Alt+E to copy all the layers onto a new layer.. copied the new layer and changed the mode to Multiply, held down the Alt key and click on the mask icon @ the bottom of the layers Menu.... painted with white on what I wanted darkened..

After you click on the thumbnail below.. click on the picture that pops up for a larger view... then click on that new picture to see an even larger picture if a larger version is available

~~Before~~ ~~After~~

[katcooper81278]

I went to the first part of the photo shop page to save it and it just stoped. Not sure what I did, but I did get to step 3. I will keep working. You guys have been so great. Most people would not even bother to help. Thanks to all of you!!