Young Lad Needs A Seat

[weewood]

Well, I getting towards the end on this one (unless you tell me different), but I feel the young lad needs a seat, maybe a carpeted seat? What do you think?

[PatW]

Boy David, do we know how to pick 'em or what!   It almost looks to me like it could be a kid-size bean bag chair.

[glennab]

Hi David

I can't make out what the little guy's sitting on, no matter what I try. However, if you check the blue channel in the original, his face, shoes and hands are easily discerned.  I'd definitely use that channel to get a more realistic look.

Cheers & hugs,

GK

[battleaxe]

Hi David,
  Thought he was sitting on a bean bag also

[weewood]

This is my second crack at trying to get things to look right and provide a bean bag chair. I can't really tell, even from the blue channel, what style the bean bag chair is, but I built what I thought looked good. Hope this looks better to everyone now?

I will say that the photo looks so much better when viewed as an 8X10.

Regards, David

[glennab]

Wowser, bowser, David!  What an improvement.  His face looks fantastic, and the rest of him looks more realistic.  I think the bean bag works very well.  You never cease to amaze me.  I think you've done a great job.

Hugs!

GK

[weewood]

Thanks, Glenna! I was hoping you would like it.  :hug:

[Candice]

Much better!   :)

[Mhayes]

Great job, David!  :up:

Margie

[cmpentecost]

Nice work David!  The only comment I can add is perhaps adding a bit more dodging and burning of the body ~ hands, feet, torso.  Just add more shadowing/depth of field to give it the look of, well...depth.  Look really, really close at his left hand (our right) and you can see some of the shadowing.  I think the same goes with the feet.  The cushion he is sitting on looks perfect, but is the background too.....much of one solid color?  Maybe a bit of dodging to lighten certain areas?  I hope this all makes sense. I think you did a fabulous job on this photo, but am looking at the aspect of a photo that gives it the realistic "depth" that we see in an untouched photo.

My best!

Christine

[Hannie]

Hi David,

Congratulations on a wonderful restore, beautiful job!
Christine's tips will even make it better, I tried the background myself.  I always find it the hardest thing to replace.

I selected the background with the magic wand set at 20.  Then I used a soft big brush to dodge midtones at 3%, just following the outline a couple of times and used the original as an example.

Finally in hue/saturation I pushed the hue slider to -7.

:loveit:

Hannie



After posting this I saw that I dodged too much, it should be a little less!

[weewood]

This is my latest rendition. I had a little fairy drop bye and sprinkle some pixel dust on this photo which I think has really helped. I would like to send this one home, unless there are some strong objections.

I finally realized, that I have a very distracting glare on my monitor, that keeps me from seeing things as they should be. I need to figure out what I can do about that. Regards, David

[Mhayes]

David, this looks great! The addition of adding more depth to your photo made all the difference!  :up:

Margie

[Hannie]

I  really like the shading, very nice job!

David, maybe you should turn your computer set up 180 degr. around the other way!

Hannie

[cmpentecost]

Nice job David!   :up:

Christine