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14-07-11, 07:50 AM
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Re: Anyone want a go at this pic?

Had a few minutes to play with this and remembering I am no expert with PS and that I am usually the first to decry the over use of it, here is my measly effort:




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14-07-11, 07:57 AM
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So much better than my effort Steve. Is it easy to blur the background?


     
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14-07-11, 08:17 AM
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So much better than my effort Steve. Is it easy to blur the background?
Time consuming rather than difficult. I had to make a selection around the girl which takes the time if done properly, then inverse the selection (which in effect then selects everything except what one initially selected).

I then used Gaussian blur filter to blur the background and desaturated the colours a fair bit.

The selection was inversed again to select the girl and then I played around with the reduce noise filter and the colour balance (got this a bit wrong by the look of it, too much magenta) and a slight bit of unsharp mask.

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14-07-11, 08:31 AM
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Cheers Steve. Believe it or not I understood what you said


     
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14-07-11, 09:44 AM
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s'funny how people seem to like the pictures that you, the photographer may not have chosen... just did a set of pictures of a biker chick, she just wants to look cool in mirror sunglasses... don't think they do her justice at all but they are the ones she likes...and sadly I can be seen in many of them when magnified up!
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14-07-11, 10:07 AM
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Very true bc. Family member wanted some flower pictures I had done so they could be put onto box canvas. When they picked 2 they like I said, they're not my best ones ............. but they liked them


     
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14-07-11, 11:00 AM
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I like the rail. so I kept it.


     
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14-07-11, 12:41 PM
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My daughter in-law likes this pic of her (personally I've taken better of her), anyway, she said can make it so its softy glow around the edges and soft/mystical around her, like professional do. I said I take pictures, I'm not Paul Daniels
By 'softly glow around the edges' does your daughter in law mean a faded vignette like this ?



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14-07-11, 01:13 PM
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"s'funny how people seem to like the pictures that you, the photographer may not have chosen... just did a set of pictures of a biker chick, she just wants to look cool in mirror sunglasses... don't think they do her justice at all but they are the ones she likes...and sadly I can be seen in many of them when magnified up! "

reminds me of a vase of flowers hahahahahaha


     
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14-07-11, 01:15 PM
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by the way they are all good but I prefer the orig but Id take dado out


     
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