Opinion needed

schen · September 28, 2007, 12:01:06 AM

The bright white fabric and the dark background made it very difficult to adjust the brightness and contrast. She is wearing a hat and there seemed to be a framed picture in the background. I tried to brighten the hat and the hair, but they turned grainy.and unnatural. Should I leave it as is?

klassylady25 · September 28, 2007, 12:36:47 AM

Can any more detail be brought out around the head? Or did the damage do that in? Other than that you've done a great work on this.

Candy

Charlene5 · September 28, 2007, 01:00:58 AM

I ran her through Shadow/Highlight with the Shadow slider shoved all the way to the right. It does bring up some detail but it also screws up your nice background :)

schen · September 28, 2007, 01:12:09 AM

That looks much better than I can do. I can always patch up the dark background again. But I don't find shadow/highlight.

Charlene5 · September 28, 2007, 02:00:09 AM

I see you're using PS 7 and I'm on CS2. Shadow/Highlight is in the Image/Adjustments menu for me.

Ausimax · September 28, 2007, 04:27:03 AM

I don't think PS 7 has Shadow/Highlight it came in with either CS or CS2.

Max

Hannie · September 28, 2007, 05:42:49 AM

Chen, too bad you don't have shadow/highlight adjustment. You could have the same effect by selecting the parts that need more detail and use curves or levels only in your selection.
Great clean up, really nice picture!

Hannie

Ausimax · September 28, 2007, 07:41:09 AM

Schen, I can see the hat in you restoration its faint but there, maybe if you just added a bit of highlight to the edge of the brim and the top edge of the crown, with the colour of the background you can only allude to the hat.

Max

klassylady25 · September 28, 2007, 08:45:47 AM

How about trying this: Mask the area that you want to work with so that you do not change the girls face and then use your history brush set at screen (about 75%) to bring out the hat. Add a bit of color from her suit and texture. As you said you can redo the background.

Candice

schen · September 29, 2007, 06:23:48 PM

Thanks to Charlene's help. I overlaid her enhancement over mine and masked out everything but the hat and the hair.

sanbie · September 29, 2007, 07:01:02 PM

That looks great!!

Sanbie

Hannie · September 29, 2007, 07:13:23 PM

Nice job!

Hannie

Ratz · September 29, 2007, 07:32:53 PM

Great job!

Charlene5 · September 29, 2007, 07:34:48 PM

She looks quite brilliant!

Tess (Tassie D) · September 29, 2007, 08:07:29 PM

:up: Perfect job. I just realised she's wearing the same hat as one I'm doing.

Opinion needed

klassylady25

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