Pageant enhanced photo for a baby boy?

[Cassidy]

Decided to go a little more over the top than most
Smart Blur at 50% opacity
Background Change to Clouds
Bit of Dodge and Burn on eyes and eyebrows
Levels and colour adjustment

[mommy2carston]

I just love all the pictures! It's amazing how you can change it that much.

I kind of figured out how to enhance the eyes with the red eye removal but I'm having a problem with it, his eye lids are covering up part of his eyes so when I go to enhance the color, blue gets all over the top and bottom of his eye lids... what am I doing wrong? I also really like the doll looking eyes with a small pupil, how do I change the pupil size?

Another question, I still change figure out how to smooth the skin. How do you do it, you have to spell it out for me or I won't understand... LOL!

Melea

[DCobb]

I would like to share my thoughts on your previous questions in your last post. I am not a retoucher--which translates--my work flow--solution may not be the most efficient.
I noted that you use Paint Shop Pro. I use either Photoshop CS2 or CS3. Usually I use CS2 as I have never installed my pulgins on CS3.

-One solution would be to use the search feature on this web site and see if any Paint Shop Pro users have responded to the topic questions.

-You mentioned the eye color going on to the skin. I believe a soft brush can make things bleed if you are near the edge. Also, the best thing would be to make the area you are working on a selection by using a mask --marquee selection. The color would stop at the edge of the selection.

-I am attaching an eye that has had the pupil reduced and enlarged. To reduce I selected the pupil size I wanted and then inverted the selection and cloned up to the selection. To enlarge I set my brush size to the pupil size I wanted and painted in with black. I used a reduced opacity and then by clicking I could darken it as much as I wanted.

-For skin smoothing I would suggest you enter the topic in the search feature and you should find ample information. I like the degrunge tutorial on this web site.

How much of this will work with Paint Shop Pro, I'm sorry, but I don't know.

dc

[chillin]

Here is a link to a PSP8 file that shows one option for skin smoothing.
1. Histogram + hue/saturation/lightness adjustment
2. Gaussian blur
3. Mask layer painted w/black brush (opacity 15%)

[aileycat]

Ohh a boy don't get many of them, and he is such a cutie.
I do a lot of retouching on ebay and have had head taken off for my photos here. but it is what it is. I can't wait to play with it.

here a link to my my page to see some of my work.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...8481&rd=1&rd=1

I post a pic in the moring, off to bed now.

ailey

[aileycat]

ps here is a tip, most pageant photo's are tilted to the side just a little.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f5...uelady/454.jpg