faking "before" pics

stopa · #16 09-23-2006, 02:35 PM

Haniball- and the others: I think it is waste of time to spend our life to think and watch bad sites and works.
I think we should talk and think how breathtaiking retouches and manipulation was done.
Leave those poor-artist to forgotness.

HannibalVector · #17 09-23-2006, 05:52 PM

Stopa, don't worry, I don't spend my whole life on a quest for fake retouchers.
I just stumble on them from time to time and they give me a chuckle!
And having some fun so new and then isn't wasting time, is it?

Btw, nice work on your website!

eyegomay · #18 09-23-2006, 08:22 PM

I am totally amazed by your work. I only play around with retouching photos... but your work really makes me say WOW! each time I click the next button. It is true... you have to have an eye for natural coloring and you've got it! I really enjoyed the detail in the picture with the old couple sitting against a brick wall. Your attention to coloring the bricks to be of different tones really brings the photo to life.

Kraellin · #19 09-23-2006, 09:30 PM

eyegomay, welcome to RetouchPRO.

umm, to whom are you referrring, complimenting? these threads can get pretty disjointed. pays to say a name or quote a quote.

craig

Vikki · #20 09-25-2006, 04:02 PM

Per Coffee's suggestion, a famous black and white photo colorized.
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"

HannibalVector · #21 09-25-2006, 04:41 PM

That looks awesone Vikki, you past the genuine test.

Kraellin · #22 09-25-2006, 10:48 PM

vikki,

i think i'd seen that tutorial some time back, probably i saw a referral from you in another thread or something, and told myself, 'when i've got some time'. well, i made some time tonight and that's pretty amazing. how absolutely clever to paint with masks!

it no longer translates exactly into Paint Shop Pro 10 or 11, but i could understand it well enough to modify it to today's psp and still keep everything intact. in fact, rather than using hue/sat directly on the layers, i made 3 layer groups, one for each color, and added a hue/sat adjustment layer to each layer group. when i was done tweaking the masks i could go back and tweak the hue/sat adj layers also, giving that last little tweak to things.

very, very clever! thank you

i did a test image using the image used in the tutorial. it's probably not as good as you or flora do, but i thought it was a nice first run. it's attached.

craig