Ballerina lips and curtians

[MichaelG]

My wife said the curtians were a teal green color and I was trying to move her lips to more of a natural lip color. Any suggestions.

MichaelG

[smurfing]

I'm no expert
In fact still very new to this
My thoughts were that recolouring would be the easiest way

Would love to hear the experts methods

Smurf

[secretagents]

Hi smurfing, I am no expert and I used your image along with the original to do a quick hack.

Here is what I did : I opened the original image in photoshop 7, pasted your image as a new layer which I set to color mode. I then flatened the image. Adjusted levels. Then I applied the free plugin Multiple Histogram Equalization with a radius of 128 which I then faded at 10% in multiply mode. That's it.

[Cassidy]

Took a sample from the hair (colour) and created a new layer in colour blending mode and changed the colour of the lips, sampled a coloured part of the curtain and recoloured curtains by adding a new blank layer in colour blending mode and painting. Same with floor. Finished off with a levels adjustment and then used a red photo filter to give some more tonal quality to the skin and finally a levels adjustment

[Verywierd]

Did a histogram level adjustment, then manually coloured each area as necessary. Contrast adjustment and overall colour balance.

[lurch]

Your image had some yellow staining, which I took out with a masked hue/sat adjustment layer. The result was pretty much colorless, so I re-colored the whole thing using masked curves and selective color layers. Sharpened gently and finished off with a BW layer, reds and cyans darkened a tad, set to luminosity. Did your wife say what color the dress was? It could have been any pale shade.

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by lurch

Your image had some yellow staining, which I took out with a masked hue/sat adjustment layer. The result was pretty much colorless, so I re-colored the whole thing using masked curves and selective color layers. Sharpened gently and finished off with a BW layer, reds and cyans darkened a tad, set to luminosity. Did your wife say what color the dress was? It could have been any pale shade.

You've done a beautiful job Lurch, if you don't mind there is a patch on the girl right arm.

regards


helen

[lurch]

Woops! You're right, Helen. Completely missed that one.

[MichaelG]

Thank You everyone, your efforts greatly appreciated.

MichaelG

[chillin]

I have played around with selective levels & curves adjustments + some noisware.

[Kraellin]

delightful, all!