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Cooper Kids

Little Cutie

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[weewood]

I hope you like this one. I figure that I'm finished with it, but would like opinions if you got any. Otherwise, I'll send it home. 

[Hannie]

What lovely photo, great restore!  I see a few yellow stains, but that  may be because I'm  starting to see spots after being out in the sun all day!

Great job David!

Hannie

[mschonher]

Hi David,

I must congratulate you on the wonderful job you're doing on this photo.  The background looks great too.
I saw the yellow Hannie was talking about, to my eye there is some discoloring of both yellow and purple in this photo.

I made a new adjustment layer, hue/sat/yellow and moved the slider to -43. This looked good on my monitor but you may have to change it up or down.

Another adjustment layer, levels, white slider to the left at 214.  Flatten these 2 layers

Made another new layer and set blending mode to color.  I chose the yellow/brown area on top of the head and painted the hair using a soft airbrush, opacity set to approx. 25%.  Cleaned up spillover and went to filter, gausaian blur 2.5.  Adjust opacity on layers palette as needed. Purple hair all gone!

I repeated the above step but chose a flesh tone from the arm andchanged brush opacity to approximately 10 - 15%, painted the face and legs and upper arm.  Do a gausian blur and clean up as needed just like the hair.  Made another layer set to normal and chose one of the medium darker hair colors and painted in just a little bit of definition in the back of the head where the hair is blurry.  If it looks too hard add a tiny gausian blur maybe 0.2.  Flatten.

The last thing I did was a curves adjustment, auto, then reduced it to 27%.  I hope it's ok that I attatched the one I worked on right onto your before, maybe I should have sent it by itself.

I'm not very good at explaining things, so I hope I didn't confuse you..................Mary

[cmpentecost]

Purple hair all gone!

But Mary...purple is my favorite color!!

Great tutorial/instructions in what you did.  Thanks for the tips!

Chris

[mschonher]

Chris, I like the color purple too but not for hair and skin! Thanks for the compliment on the tut.  I'm not very good at explaining how I do things.  I'm sure there are many other ways to accomplish what I tried to do. And speaking of color, how are those red shoes?

Mary

[Mhayes]

Mary, I love your tutorials and I think you do a great job of explaining to those at all skill levels. 

[weewood]

Thanks, everyone! I'll give it another shot. 

[weewood]

Here's another look at this little girl. Let me know what you think! 

[Hannie]

David, I think:

[Mhayes]

David, she looks beautiful!

[glennab]

Gorgeous, David!

G

[Tess (Tassie D)]

A beautiful photo.

[mschonher]

David, she looks wonderful    The family will be so happy.

Mary

[weewood]

Great!!! Thanks everyone for all your help. Many of Mary's tips really helped.   

[Pelican]

You did a great job on this!