Evil Nemesis

Hi would someone please make this picture color + clear ? I'll try by myself too but I wanna see the diffrence to learn more. Thanx as I'm a newbie is ps

stanislav

Hi there,

I'm not an expert either, but i think the problems is that the whites in this picture are overexposed that gives it a lack of contrast thus detail.
So i gave it a quick try anyway, but i think when coloring it too much it will look unnatural.

But i'm sure the real gurus can make a better effort

Joy Foraker

Good Effort stani I like the how you did that coloring.

What a beautiful woman. I'm afraid to try because I know I couldn't do her beauty justice.

Evil Nemesis

Hey if it was joke then wasn't good, and if it was praise then thanx .

Joy Foraker

It was Praise, I'd never joke about someone's mother. She is truly beautiful.

Evil Nemesis

Sorry I couldn't understand that at first time.
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8))

stanislav

Thank you Joy,

But it was real quick done...and i don't think it is that good.

Joy i saw some work from you and i.m sure you won't mess up.
I believe that challenges like these are a really a good opportunity to improve ones PS skills. Myself for instance: i joined this board about 6 weeks ago and i amazed myself what i learned in that time thanks to this board and its people. But i see myself still as a noob and that makes me still eager to learn more.

And i agree with you the woman in the picture looks almost like a saint

Stroker

A large part of the problem is being too "uniform" with the colour. There needs to be subtle changes in the colour.

For example, cheeks will usually have slightly higher saturation while the area around the eyes will be a bit lower in saturation. The forehead will tend more towards orange while the hairline will tend more towards red. For an area like a shiny forehead, the lum will be higher and the saturation will be lower.

Sometimes you have to be really careful with the minor shifts in colour. A touch of orange can sometimes look yellow/green. Fascinating phenom.

Attached is real quick-n-sloppy painting of hue and saturation.
Drop it over your photo and set to Colour blending mode.
I did crop, so you'll have to move it into place.
Not the greatest example, but should show what I'm talking about.

I did this using hue and saturation, but the same idea applies for ab in Lab.

edit:
Crap.
I just noticed something.
BBL.

Stroker

Ah! Going nuts!

Take what you've done so far.
Copy the original and order it to the top of the Layers palette.
Set the blending mode to Luminosity.
You should see a marked difference.

There is kind of a 'order of operations' going on.
Luminosity will act as a 'clamp', so to speak.
This is why I always work with Luminosity at the top.

Gotta go.

edit:
Man, talking to 2 different people here.
What a mess.
I'm going for a walk.

stanislav

Hi,

Stroker thanks for your explanation !!
The result looks so much better [righton]
There is so much more i can learn about those blending options

I know practise, practise practise....