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Robin
Joined: 13 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject: HELP: Severe skin tone adjustment |
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Hi,
This is a bit of a sad and uncomfortable story, but recently I lost my daughter, whose heartbeat stopped at 38 weeks old.
The hospital gave us photographs to help remember her by, but the photographs we received did not look like her. Her clothes/background all came out normally, but her skin tone was severely darkened and saturated looking. It was unclear if this was a problem with the photography or with when they chose to photograph her, and the hospital staff was of little help in fixing or replacing the photos.
Regardless, I'd like to have a photo that more closely matches how I remember her. She had a pale, white-pinkish skin tone. This doesn't need to be exact or anything, just a correction from the very dark, and red-saturated skin tone in the photo.
My husband and I have basic photoshop skills, but we were both unable to successfully adjust the color to anything that looked reasonable.
To give an understanding of what we're starting with and trying to get to, I've attached a very abstracted sample of the original tone (baby-sample.jpg) and a random photo with roughly the target skin tone we're trying to reach.
If anyone here is able to correct this successfully and tell me the steps needed to do so, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide with this extremely difficult task.
--Robin |
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
Posts: 2377
Location: Mesa, Az
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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So sorry for your loss. If you could post the picture itself, I'd have a better chanbe of being able to assist you. |
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Robin
Joined: 13 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Hawkeye,
Thanks for your help. I'm reluctant to post the picture publicly, but can email it privately if you would be comfortable sending an email address by post or pm. |
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
Posts: 2377
Location: Mesa, Az
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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I sent you a PM with my email address. |
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Patrick
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Location: Harbinger, NC, U.S.A.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hopefully you'll receive some useful advice here.
