The Power of Photoshop 2

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o0moonman0o

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got bored this afternoon so decided to write my 2nd tutorial (portrait tutorial). theres a link on this one to my last one. hope u all like it.


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Not bad, I think a lot more could have been done. Personally I would not have cropped and paid some attention on the sky as I think that would add more to the piece and the overall yellow-greenish color could have been more of a neutral color, but overall not bad at all. =0)
 
Yea not too bad, skin seems a bit blown out, and theres a greenish/yellowish cast on the background. Also the upper part of the background is all white and overexposed as well. More attention to detail and multiple layers would have helped make a better final product
 
Did you do something with the proportions? For some reason, her face looks a bit wider to me in the second pic.
 
I think that's an optical illusion brought out by the way how the lighting and skin is manipulated (especially on the cheeks). Of course, that's me looking at this at 11:40pm.
 
I have some actions that does this fairly well...
 
Good job. But I am always amazed how much people in this forum are obsesed with doctoring their photos. Last time I touched Photoshop was 8 years ago. Every photo that I post is 100% non doctored except for maybe some cropping (but even that is rare).
 
Don't take this the wrong way, but other than the crop, I don't think the image is improved - It just looks overexposed with detail washed out.

Photoshop is a superb program, I spend a large amount of time using it at work, and have even bought my own copy as it can save a bad photo, but it's easy to go too far.

Good idea making tutorials tho! You can never know too much about PS :)
 
Staples said:
Good job. But I am always amazed how much people in this forum are obsesed with doctoring their photos. Last time I touched Photoshop was 8 years ago. Every photo that I post is 100% non doctored except for maybe some cropping (but even that is rare).
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People can definitely overdo it with Photoshop. However, when you're shooting RAW, your software workflow becomes pretty important. Think of it as taking your film to a lab for prints or doing it yourself in a darkroom. The darkroom takes more time, but you have control over what comes out (as opposed to setting a style in the camera).

As for not cropping, why constrain yourself to a 3x2 (or 4x3, etc.) aspect ratio?
 
Good tutorial, although I agree with others that it looks a little over-exposed.

I use ps for all my photos, but try to keep them "as original" as possible, whatever that means.
 
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