Great picture

[ajcutler]

bcarll:

Like DCobb I used a Channel Mixer layer, and selected the monochrome option which got rid of the mold. I did a little cloning to remove the other spots.

Then I colorized the face, tie, put a little yellow in the hair, and a slight wine color to the background.

Alan

[Kraellin]

nicely done, alan.

[Dmax]

Everyone did great jobs here 's what I could do

[Dmax]

I just painted all of it

[Kraellin]

looks good, dmax. would prefer it in a larger format, though. hard to get in close to see detail when they're that small.

[Dmax]

yeah I am also willing to show its high resolution file but due to limited file size ,, I have much bigger version if you wanna see I could send you on your email

[saby]

Originally Posted by Dmax

yeah I am also willing to show its high resolution file but due to limited file size ,, I have much bigger version if you wanna see I could send you on your email

don't U have some place at Your gallery?

i wonder too

saby

[jannetie]

Originally Posted by Dmax

yeah I am also willing to show its high resolution file but due to limited file size ,, I have much bigger version if you wanna see I could send you on your email

To save the picture for posting, instead of using 'Save As', use 'Save For Web'. You'll get a much smaller file size that retains the dimensions of the photograph.

Janice

[lcramer53]

What a beautiful portrait and everyone's renditions are marvelous.

I gave this a try too and followed (I forget who mentioned using the channel mixer thing) but this was my first try at using that and I was very happy to have discovered its usefulness .

From there, I think I just did my usual cloning (very little needed) and then I think I ... I did some dodging and burning to get the b&w to a good point. Then I began colorizing with different layers for the few different colors, all with layer masks and I think that most of them were set as "overlay" with different opacity values. Then, I saved as "for web" and decreased the quality of it so that it would reduce to the 100kb size.

I think that minus many, many interruptions, this probably took me 2.5 hours to do. How bad is that for a semi-newbie? Or, maybe I should ask, how much faster should I be and learning techniques that could quicken the time? Also, not happy with the beard-border on the side left side, not sure what I needed to do to make it blend better.
(Please be kind.)

Thanks!

[Dmax]

Thanks everybody i dinnt know about save for web option well its very cool to show images to web .. thanks again now here it is the bigger version

[Kraellin]

dmax, much better! and a very good job.

i'm still of a mind that that coat is a gray, but nice job regardless

[Dmax]

and one more thing Icramer53 these type of photos need maximum 10 minutes spending more time on this is total waste..

[lcramer53]

Thanks Dmax, I definitely need to practice more .

[Dmax]

well I love to tell you may be it help you out somewhere I used soft brush blending mode =color uses different colors coating 1st A0410A then FDC689 with different opacity to give some shine aloso add little red color then again orange red color to bring shine

[lcramer53]

Dmax, thanks for sharing your technique, I've never used the soft brush blending mode but can see that I need to try it out. You did a beautiful job and I really like the colors you used too.