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Subject: [OM] Re: [Photo] Eyes
From: Johan Malmstrom <jmalmstrom@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:53:33 +0100
I removed the pin in this one, just for you Chuck. ;)
http://foto.johanmalmstrom.se/ws_061111/PB114259-Version2_1.jpg
Don't show it to her though, she knows my email I will probably start  
a spam war or something. Never trust these cyberkids...

/ Johan
13 nov 2006 kl. 19.47 skrev Chuck Norcutt:

> Actually, I think I went a little overboard on the eyes.  Had it  
> been a
> client's photo I'd have redone it.  The eyes are done in two steps.
>
> Step one is to accentuate the dark line on the outside of the iris.
> That's what was overdone.  It shouldn't be quite so dark nor quite so
> wide.  The darkening is done by painting with a brush in multiply
> blending mode.  "multiply" darkens things and is often used to recover
> washed out images by accentuating whatever bit of detail is left.
>
> Step two is to lighten and brighten the color of the iris by using
> inverse screen mode and blending the color of the iris with its own
> inverse.
>
> But there are probably a dozen other ways to do the same thing.
>
> Getting rid of the pin in the lip was simply using the patch tool and
> then a lot of fiddly cloning and painting to cover over the errors of
> the patch tool.  The patch tool is sometimes like trying to use a
> hunting knife whare a scalpel would have been the approriate tool.  If
> it was a client I'd have done a better job.  But, I guess, if she was
> the client I wouldn't have been doing it anyhow.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> ScottGee1 wrote:
>> Well done Chuck!  Your 'fixes' are subtle enough that I wouldn't
>> notice them at all.
>>
>> Are the steps of the fixes quick and easy to describe?
>>
>> ScottGee1
>>
>> On 11/13/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> But I couldn't resist fixing her "tooth" and adding a little  
>>> accent on
>>> the eyes... even though she probably wouldn't like it.
>>>
>>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/temp/Johan%20-%20eyes%20r.jpg>
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Johan Malmstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> A portrait of this girl with out this "tooth" isn't her.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! / Johan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 12 nov 2006 kl. 23.41 skrev ScottGee1:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Indeed, but that tooth has *got* to go.
>>>>>
>>>>> ;o)
>>>>>
>>>>> ScottGee1
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/12/06, Johan Malmstrom <jmalmstrom@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> She has some eyes this girl!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://foto.johanmalmstrom.se/ws_061111/PB114193.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (some Gaussian blur applied)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Enjoy! / Johan
>>
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