Mother & Daughter

[JackR]

Working on  this...thinking is pretty well done, only thing, not sure about the tablecloth...thoughts/comments?
original



WIP

[kiska]

I would extend the table cloth all the way to your left and right. It's a long table, not round.

[Lynnya]

looks good Jack I agree with Kiska and I would put a few little shadows near the china on the table  :up:

[JackR]

and here we go...changes made...

[Shadow]

Very nice Jack!! I was hoping someone would do one of those so I could see how in the world you would do it! Thanks for posting your work.  :up:

[Lynnya]

Looks great to me Jack :up:

[JackR]

I sent it in and Tess had a couple things she wanted changed...here is the final (I hope) edit...

[Lynnya]

no pic Jack...

[Shadow]

Lynn, I think we are using similar security measures and that is what is blocking Jack's link.

[JackR]

that's odd, this was posted through the "add image to post" added to the forum...

[JackR]

We'll try this...it is photobucket, see if it comes thru...

[Jo Ann Snover]

Looking at the original, I think the problem is that it's faded as well as discolored, but painting over the faces has left them looking a tad artificial.

I grabbed the original from your earlier post and did a couple of quick edits to show what I mean - compare those to your version (click to see a larger image)



You've painted color over the daughter's hair and mother's hairline, but once you get the fading fixed, you don't need to. I also find the hard line where you've filled the background with black a bit distracting.

I added a Curves adjustment layer set to multipy mode and filled the mask with black. Then I painted on the faces with gray (which darkens them). The contrast is off, but another Curves adjustment layer brightens the highlights and gets rid of the gray look. I did take a little of the red out with a Channel Mixer adjustment layer.

See what you think

[Lynnya]

Wow JS.. I'll have to remember that.. what a nice tip.. thanks for sharing. :up:

[Shadow]

Thanks JS ... nice tip and appreciate you posting the pics so we could see what you explained so well.

[Shadow]

Hi Jack. Thanks for adding the new pic. It is nice to see the big one here in the forum. I tweaked my settings for OPR so whatever you share I can enjoy it.