photoshop EXTREME make over (check it)

[NathanPresley]

BEFORE

http://www.natepresley.com/erin4RAW.jpg


AFTER

http://www.natepresley.com/erin4smallest.jpg


photoshop is a lot of fun.

[NathanPresley]

anyone ?

[Tom Marshall]

Hey Nathan, very interesting picture...

Here's my correction...

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/17011/1165821667.jpg

[CR_OPSO]

Nice job, Nathan. Are you going to fill us in on what you did?

Besides the color correction, I'm guessing you blurred a layer... erased everything other than her skin... then played with opacity. Maybe some high-pass sharpening on the eyes/mouth, too? Whatever you did... it looks great. Her face even looks thinner for some reason.

Give us details! :)

Chad

[MattinSTL]

Nice job, Nathan. Are you going to fill us in on what you did?

Chad
Or you could put out a dvd tutorial and make a fortune... seriously it looks good. That girl has some real potential... if you're lucky she's more then a model. I could see some incredible shots coming from your cam + your skills + that girl.


I wouldn't call this an "extreme makeover" but never the less I will submit one of my recent headshots (pre and post tweek) for your viewing pleasure. :happy:

http://gettreel.com/media_storage/images/jpg/comparisonshopping.jpg

[oneinfiniteloop]

Good job Nathan, I too would like to hear the process...

Mattin, nice touches there as well.

[NathanPresley]

I did quite a bit to this picture, as you can probably see.

instead of trying to explain it all I just make "tips" out of some of the things I did here

1. make the background darker
< create a new layer.fill it with black. lower the opacity. with a soft eraser erase
the black on the subject. change the black layer to a "soft light" layer mode.

2. "use liquify"
> its under filters. screw around with this. you can make eyes bigger
hips smaller etc. you can usually drop 10 pounds off your subject

3. "Blur skin"
> only the skin. make the nose, eyes, lips and eye brows are not
blurred. we are talking only the the skin. not the features on the face.

4. "Scale it"
> under edit > transform you have the ability to screw with the size of
the picture (using SCALE), try garbing just a side of the picture and squeezing it together just a little bit. this will make the subject look a little thiner.

5. "red can be bad"
> the more i work with pics the more is see that red can give off a
amateur look. go to Image> adjustments > hue and saturation. on the
top of this window you will see the word "master" click on it. it will show
the names of a few colors. select red and turn down the Saturation about
15 or 20 percent


try some of these see what you think

thanks guys for the nice words

[NathanPresley]

if any of you try these you should post them.

[NathanPresley]

anyone try some of those ?

[MrG]

Beeing sleepy really brings out the artist in me :P
Here's a quick makeover...now I'm going to bed...
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/403/erin4raw22dx9.jpg

[Rick Meyer]

I'm impressed guys with your color corrections. Color Correction is a beast I really need to learn how to tackle. Its an art in itself...

[-zach-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5IRdFIpvA&mode=related&search=

what can they really do?

[weltonfilment]

Dug up this thread and thought I'd play around with it a little bit. Would love some comments on this:

BEFORE
http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/6564/1170899344.jpg

AFTER
http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/6564/1170898479.jpg

Not so much comments on the CC (aside from getting rid of the blown out light I didn't do much CC), but really just some comments on the touch-ups on the model. I did some smoothing on her skin, liquefied her face and changed her eye color, among a few other things. Any thoughts, suggestions?

[Drew Ott]

She looks completely different and loses all of her facial expression/features.

Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

[weltonfilment]

I agree, she does look very different; that was my intention. The question is: does she look better than before? I'm curious to hear what others think. If I totally botched this one, please let me know. Thanks a bunch.

[NathanPresley]

it doesn't really seem portionable

[jdmkenji]

she looks better but not the same person anymore. imo it looks like a totally seperate face was taken and inserted in her head. now her head looks smaller in proportion to her body.

[weltonfilment]

You're right, the proportions are off. I'll see if that's fixable, and if I can do it I'll post some results.

[SilverWolf]

You overprocessed her face with the blue. Make sure when you blur the skin to smooth it out that you don't go over the edges otherwise it won't look right.

[art metal art]

Extremely blurry and looks alien now. Not an improvement over the original. It would need more work blending the photo as a whole.

[Drew Ott]

Here's my take:
http://drewott.dvxdata.com/Pictures/random%20girl.jpg

What do you guys think? I just started photoshop. Took me about 30 minutes.

[Drew Ott]

Looking at it again I forgot to do a final sharpen on the right eye.

I changed her face with liquify, did a ton of color correcting to certain spots, made teeth brighter, whites of eyes brighter, changed eye color, smoothed skin, raised eyebrow.

I actually made her facial features look slightly Elisha Cuthbert-esque, IMO. Actually I think its just the eyebrow. Also face is slightly oversatured compared to the neck.

[mastertee31]

Original:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/mastertee31/erin4RAW.jpg

Photoshopped:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/mastertee31/erin4RAWpshop.jpg