GarrettM 35 Progress

[malart]

Hi everyone. Looking for things I missed on this restoration





I know the skin tone on the arms is a bit off and the face to me seems to be too white. The backdrop I really don't like  due to the inconsistant lighting, personally would replace it.  Anyone see any other improvements?

[kiska]

Malart,
I'm, afraid your color correction is off. Do a levels adjustment then curves for the black and white points. I did a second curves for the gray point, an area on the curtains. The splotchiness of the curtains needs to be evened out.

[malart]

here's another attempt, the skin tone in the arms is driving me up a wall, no real clean sample area and the color swatches of various skin tones just don't look right. I still to clean up the masks but that is one of the last things I'll do.

[Pat]

Hi Malart,

That looks much better!  I do think it the color is still just a bit off however.  I applied Kiska's above suggestion to your latest try "Do a levels adjustment then curves for the black and white points. I did a second curves for the gray point"



Pat

[malart]

Hi Pat
I retried those adjustments but it doesn't seem to make much difference, it's still appears to be almost the same as the last one I posted......it's darker in color than yours.

[Pat]

Hi Malart,

The difference is probably the areas you chose for your black, white, and gray points when you applied the curves layers. 

For black I chose the shadow made by the eyeglasses frame above her eye (photo left side), for white an area of the corsage ribbon. 

For the gray point I used the method described by Scott Kelby http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1350898 and chose the very small area of curtain visible between the bottom of her hair and the top of the corsage (photo right side).

Pat