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Another Re-do- Older to Younger
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ALB68
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Thanks for the thought..I hate clutter. The original background was not too attractive to me..not even the Pepsi can LOL. Just me I guess but I love the look of that magenta gradient. I put on a vignette also as you can see.
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Hi ALB -
I have a suggestion.
If you really want to know how well you are doing in your post-processing, instead of asking us, take a nice picture of one of your close female relatives, process it in your typical "style", show it to her, and ask her if she would mind if you would send it to a few other family members.
If there is no hesitation about doing this on either her part or yours, it means that you are doing well, so just forge ahead as you have been doing.
If, on the other hand, either you or her are hesitant to do this, but you wouldn't hesitate to distribute the unprocessed version of the photo, it means that that your processing has actually degraded the picture, at least in the eyes of the most important person: the subject / client.
Keep repeating this type of test with other pictures and other people, and you will quickly get an idea of just how well you are doing, which technical approaches are the most useful, etc.
Obviously, the whole purpose of this process is defeated if you ask your wife (or other female relative) what they think of one of your tweaks of a photo of an anonymous woman pulled off the internet. It has to be a shot of them, and there has to be an impending distribution of the photo.
In case you are interested, I do exactly what I suggested above: I will often ask my wife's opinion on a tweak where there is any question at all about the quality or appropriateness of the tweak. In fact, this just happened last weekend when we went out with another couple. I took some pix of them, but on reviewing them, realized that the woman had put on quite a bit of weight. I produced several different slimmed-down versions that, to me, all made the woman look much better. However, I still let my wife have the last word about which to send. I would have sent the middle one in the set. My wife went with the one which had just a barely visible amount of slenderizing. Looking back at it, her selection was absolutely right on the mark.
Cheers,
Tom M
I have a suggestion.
If you really want to know how well you are doing in your post-processing, instead of asking us, take a nice picture of one of your close female relatives, process it in your typical "style", show it to her, and ask her if she would mind if you would send it to a few other family members.
If there is no hesitation about doing this on either her part or yours, it means that you are doing well, so just forge ahead as you have been doing.
If, on the other hand, either you or her are hesitant to do this, but you wouldn't hesitate to distribute the unprocessed version of the photo, it means that that your processing has actually degraded the picture, at least in the eyes of the most important person: the subject / client.
Keep repeating this type of test with other pictures and other people, and you will quickly get an idea of just how well you are doing, which technical approaches are the most useful, etc.
Obviously, the whole purpose of this process is defeated if you ask your wife (or other female relative) what they think of one of your tweaks of a photo of an anonymous woman pulled off the internet. It has to be a shot of them, and there has to be an impending distribution of the photo.
In case you are interested, I do exactly what I suggested above: I will often ask my wife's opinion on a tweak where there is any question at all about the quality or appropriateness of the tweak. In fact, this just happened last weekend when we went out with another couple. I took some pix of them, but on reviewing them, realized that the woman had put on quite a bit of weight. I produced several different slimmed-down versions that, to me, all made the woman look much better. However, I still let my wife have the last word about which to send. I would have sent the middle one in the set. My wife went with the one which had just a barely visible amount of slenderizing. Looking back at it, her selection was absolutely right on the mark.
Cheers,
Tom M
ALB68
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Tom,
Absolutely. I ask my wife's opinion on these and she will render an instant opinion. Sometimes if I don't ask her or don't take her advice as to how it comes off, I get in trouble with the graphics police! LOL
Thanks, good advice. My overall mission here is to be able to use my PS knowledge to further enhance my engraving and sublimation processes. I did a photo engraving yesterday on black granite from an old snap shot he brought. I used some of the enhancement techniques I have learned here to prepare it, including scanning it initially at 1600 dp. It turned out very nice and he and his wife were extremely pleased with it. So, the practice and work are paying off now. Prior to this time, I just muddled through with what I thought was good knowledge of preparation, wrong. I probably won't be doing too many re-touches like this but the learning experience is great.
Absolutely. I ask my wife's opinion on these and she will render an instant opinion. Sometimes if I don't ask her or don't take her advice as to how it comes off, I get in trouble with the graphics police! LOL
Thanks, good advice. My overall mission here is to be able to use my PS knowledge to further enhance my engraving and sublimation processes. I did a photo engraving yesterday on black granite from an old snap shot he brought. I used some of the enhancement techniques I have learned here to prepare it, including scanning it initially at 1600 dp. It turned out very nice and he and his wife were extremely pleased with it. So, the practice and work are paying off now. Prior to this time, I just muddled through with what I thought was good knowledge of preparation, wrong. I probably won't be doing too many re-touches like this but the learning experience is great.
ALB68
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Carving? You mean the engraving etching ? I have quite a few. I'll put some up for you to see tomorrow.
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ALB68
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Hahaha! Cooler anyway! Thats what I call the KISS system (Keep it simple stupid)