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I challenge you Andrew Chorley
I challenge you to retouch this image: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1183984 Thank you Liannelaan for such a great image. http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Liannelaan Rules: -Only Photoshop or PS Elements allowed. No TP plugins. -Image should be a max of 800 pixels on the long side -Posters to this thread will decide who wins the contest -Keep PSD available if someone calls shenanigans.  -You have two days to do your retouch and post up. I get 24 hours. You can decline if you like. Post up if you accept. Let's have some fun. Edit to add photographer credit. May 30 09 01:15 pm Link I accept, even before I looked at the photo  May 30 09 01:23 pm Link Ding Ding! Round 1 has begun. I'll be taking bets in the back room  May 30 09 02:41 pm Link  Edit one! Very tough edit for me. I have the hardest time with patchy skin. I never seem to get it perfect. No blurs used! May 30 09 08:01 pm Link May 31 09 01:53 am Link  I wanted to play too. Full size file available. May 31 09 04:47 am Link Out of these 3 I like Stephen Bradford's the best, the eyes are not over done and the skin doesn't look overly or underly shopped. Good job allMay 31 09 05:25 am Link Tough I'm a photographer I also do my own photoshop editing. heres something simple. I've found out that people actually love to see themselves as sketches...  May 31 09 05:39 am Link Stephen 1st place (disqualified for late entry) Gibson 1st place Bradford 2nd place May 31 09 05:45 am Link May 31 09 05:58 am Link Alright. Now we get to learn from each other. Here is the PSD file at 800 pixels: www.gibsonphotoart/download/MM/MMBR053009.psd Any suggestions on how to do this better? The red tone in the cheeks was extremely tough to deal with and required a lot of work. It's still not perfect though. I intentionally selected this image because of the redness and the hair in the face. With the hair normal blurring techniques are not going to work very well. My masking was also very loose and no work in the actual channels. Which is odd for me. I knew I should have fixed the nose! I went back and forth on it, but decided to leave it. May 31 09 08:41 am Link Gibson Photo Art wrote: A fairly quick way around this is to swap channels. Ask for a duplicate layer, find the channel with the least amount of problems, and apply that channel into the channels that have the most problems. Put the layer in color mode and adjust the color with the HS layer tool, until it matches the surrounding areas. Mask out what you don't need, this usually gets you very close. May 31 09 09:05 am Link link page can't be displayed for me either May 31 09 09:33 am Link The red tone in the cheeks was extremely tough to deal with and required a lot of work. It's still not perfect though. The blotchy red cheeks can be managed in almost one move, if you briefly convert the file to CMYK, mask the skin and then use selective color. In the pull down menu go to the Magentas and then greatly reduce them while also adding yellow. It takes the blotchy pink out almost immediately. May 31 09 10:12 am Link Can you guys do another challenge? I just caught this thread and was too late to submit anything..  May 31 09 10:33 am Link Check your PMs Bob. May 31 09 10:35 am Link fm_photographie wrote: The challenges are only for two people at a time. You can challenge anyone in another thread that you choose. I would recommend contacting the person to see if they are interested before you issue a public challenge though. May 31 09 10:37 am Link This link should download a zip file, let me know if it doesn't work. Its a layered file that shows the results of channel swapping. The entire exercise took less than two minutes, and I wasn't interested in minutia or skill, I just wanted you to see how quickly you can make a correction and how effective it can be. http://www.robert-randall.com/MM/Gibson … rs.psd.zip May 31 09 10:58 am Link Robert Randall wrote: very nice, bob. i like it a lot! May 31 09 11:13 am Link I'll play again May 31 09 11:14 am Link SCRetouching wrote: Same here..... May 31 09 11:14 am Link Robert Randall wrote: Good job Bob May 31 09 11:15 am Link Robert Randall wrote: Thank you! That was helpful to see. May 31 09 11:19 am Link Just my 2 cents and for what ever it's worth, I LOVE coming here to see all of your work! I find it fascinating:) This new forum has been LONG over do ! May 31 09 11:22 am Link K2AM Photography wrote: Very helpful! May 31 09 11:55 am Link Stephen Bradford wrote: Whoa. That's pretty slick. May 31 09 12:38 pm Link Robert Randall wrote: Wow again. That's pretty amazing. Took seconds to do and really worked well. In all the books and tutorials I have been through I have never seen this. I must have missed that chapter somewhere. May 31 09 01:06 pm Link  Here is a reedit using the method Bob mentioned. I have to say that is amazing. I tinkered with for only 5-10 mins and the results are far superior to me trying to remove the redness by hand. I spent two hours doing it too. I so knew this would be worth it! I just cut my workflow to 10% of what it was yesterday! Someone needs to start another battle soon. We can't let this fall into the abyss of lost MM threads. May 31 09 01:37 pm Link |
