Editing Practice

    (Loosely) following Aaron Nace's Phlearn tutorial by editing the GIF (left) from that tutorial's page.
    No Photoshop here, though. :-)

    Comments and faves

    1. Karl Batchelor (6 months ago | reply)

      How much did you pay?.. works really well. Have been put off buying some of the streamed tutorials. Nice work Chris

    2. staz512 (6 months ago | reply)

      good work,
      the main difference is the mood though. Make the model smile b4 the soot; saving PS time :)

    3. -cr (6 months ago | reply)

      I got it for the opening price of $9.99 You will be glad to learn that Aaron seems to be offering his "Pro" tutorials for download now, not streamed anymore. (But DownloadHelper already existed before. :)

    4. -cr (6 months ago | reply)

      There's more here than meets the eye; seems I've accomplished my goal of a "natural" edit. Btw, the "before" is not my picture, so making her smile for the shot was not an option for me. :)

    5. Jennifer Summer (6 months ago | reply)

      I don't understand Photoshopping in a smile.

    6. -cr (6 months ago | reply)

      The "liquify" tool is your friend (IWarp filter in GIMP).

    7. Jennifer Summer (6 months ago | reply)

      I know what the liquify tool is. I just don't understand why you would make someone smile if they weren't really smiling.

    8. -cr (6 months ago | reply)

      For the same reason (some) people remove wrinkles, pimples, etc. while editing a portrait? P.S.: Come to think of it: Probably for the same reason people edit their photos at all! :)

    9. Jennifer Summer (6 months ago | reply)

      Well, yeah, but those can be considered 'flaws', I guess. But making someone smile who wasn't smile, isn't that like...changing emotion?

    10. -cr (6 months ago | reply)

      Yes, it is. All for the sake of a more "appealing" picture! Removing "flaws", over saturating a sunset, adding textures, sharpening, un-tilting the horizon, fixing white balance, cropping, removing lens distortion, changing a mood, altering emotion, combining multiple pictures into one, ... Whatever the client wants! Here, I consider myself the client, and I wanted some editing practice. As a photo journalist, I'd have to draw the line *much* earlier, of course.

    11. Jennifer Summer (6 months ago | reply)

      Okay. I don't put white balance and un-tilting horizons in the same category as the smile thing, though, since those are basically used to have the camera reflect reality if it just misses the mark, whereas this is altering reality entirely.

    12. -cr (6 months ago | reply)

      Perfectly understandable! Me, I would object more to some of the edits here that apparently are more subtle: her "nose job", skewing her face, moving her right eye around, removing her wrinkles, ... Removing a pimple? No big deal, it would be gone a few days later, anyway. Making her smile? Hey, maybe she *did* actually smile just a second later! :) As for altering white balance: Changed in the "right" direction, this can lead to really dramatic (and sometimes rather appealing :) pictures that are quite a bit beyond "objective reality". Thanks for this discussion, btw!
      P.S.: Have you seen youtu.be/hibyAJOSW8U? (Or the parody youtu.be/lV8JardV74w? :)

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    14. Jennifer Summer (6 months ago | reply)

      I hear what you're saying. I love discussions like this, seriously! Totally watching the videos in a sec. I love a good parody. :-)

    15. The-Su (6 months ago | reply)

      Magic~

    16. Traciѐ (6 months ago | reply)

      it helps that she is already such a beautiful woman :)

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      Call me Lee and Karl Batchelor added this photo to their favorites.

    18. Gaietty (5 months ago | reply)

      really good x

    19. MarkNKL (5 months ago | reply)

      Great photosh... oop i meant editing work! =P
      No really, the lighting's much better, smoothed out her complexion and love the smile. I'd say she looks 10 years younger after your work :D

    20. TFNnaranjo (4 months ago | reply)

      a esto se ble llama cirujia fotografica ,, y barata .. muy bien hecha , Besos de Teresa

    21. My Planet Experience (4 months ago | reply)

      brilliant work, very impressive!

    22. rebelshootsfan (4 months ago | reply)

      Nice job!

    23. koko_pictures (2 months ago | reply)

      Lovely work.......most lovely portret............!

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