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jodie

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:23 pm    Post subject: idiot proof guide for newbie pleaase :) editing a baby photo Reply with quote
hello everyone :) Firtly im sorry if i am posting in totally the wrong area but its the first time i have been on the site so not too sure of my way around lol

Im in desperate need of some help with photo editing in cs3.

basically i have seen some baby photos someone i 'know' has taken where a lovely effect has been applied. I asked her how and this is what she said:

'I create a fill layer of a shade of the middle tone of the sikin colour reduce the opacity, then add a texture mask to bring back a bit more of the features and paint it on the areas .. then just sharpen areas such as eyes nose and mouth .. and highlights to the corners of the eyes and centre of the mouth .. and then select high pass as a mask and that makes the image pop out a little bit'

But being a newbie i have no idea how to do any of this!! lol i know my way around photo shop a bit but just afetr ANYONE who can help me step by step pretty pretty please? :)

here are 2 examples of the images that use the effect incase that makes it easier for anyone to know what i mean lol (hope the links work)

Thank you all in advance if you can help Big Grin xx





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thehermit

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome to the forum. Would it help massively if someone broke this down? It seems like you may need to learn about sharpening and/or toning. For toning read one of a hundred terms including cross processing, split tone or one of the other million variants.

What would be helpful is you giving a source image that your are attempting to convert, we could suggest loads of answers and they may not apply to the image you have.

I am careful as to what I say, as I am wary of unsolicited critique of someone I am not familiar with.
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seaco

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have to agree with Hermit here we need one of your source photos to give you advice as there are several ways to get the image processed as you want...
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