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I'm a lost ball in high grass here. Please help! TIA.


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So several months ago, I altered an image of my son simply by adding layers and making tweaks. Like an idiot, I saved it as a Jpeg and deleted the PSD. Now I have a similar photo of my daughter and I wish to make the exact same changes to her photo. We're framing them side by side. Needless to say, for the life of me I can't even get it close to the photo of my son.

Is there any way to export the Jpeg alterations and import them into the photo I'm trying to change of my daughter?

I've played around with the file info tab and there is quite a bit of info in the advanced section and raw section of the photo containing my son. Tried importing the info over to my daughters photo and nothing happened.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If there is absolutely no way to do this, then I could possibly post the photo of my son and daughter and see if anyone could help me recreate the effects.

Or I can copy and paste the advanced and raw data info and see if anyone can help decipher that information.

Thanks again!
 
Thanks again. The more I look at it, I realize that it's almost darn near perfect! Thanks. I appreciate any instructions you could pass along. I have a few other pics of my daughter that I want to apply the same specs to and so we can then choose which we want to use. I think this will be the one, but just in case, I wanna look at the others as well. Plus, I'd just like to know. Like I said, I can't remember what I did originally and to be honest it was probably dumb luck that it turned out as good as it did. Thanks a ton Spruce!!
 
I think the image of your son was sharpened a bit, which I think will be the main difference, but if you give me a few hours, Ill have a look and see what I did to let you know. just a bit busy with work at the minute.
 
No problem, you're helping me out. I have tried to recreate it, but I think I just got lucky originally. I had several adjustment layers and was playing around with their settings. I think most of them were level and exposure. I don't know. I'm sure there's a much easier way.

Again, I can't thank you enough. We're finally getting around to framing them so we'd like to match as close as possible.

Thanks again for your help!!
 
Well, I had forgotten exactly what I did, so did it again and just saved the .PSD so you can see what I did for your self. Very much a case of trial and error with contrast, exposure, and brightness. A tiny hint of a photo colour filter as well. Though I didn't smooth the skin out with the blur tool this time.
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Your never going to get them both looking the exact same, as the lighting is totally different in each of the pictures. Though it is always a good idea to compare complexions when doing this kind of thing.

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I like the idea of masking / splitting both Images Spruce....:idea:

I have always just put them side by side, that is MUCH BETTER than my old way Spruce !!
 
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Mike: "...I have always just put them side by side, that is MUCH BETTER!!..."

Mike's advice is the way to go when you are trying to match two images.

If you don't have enough real estate on your monitor, just put the 2nd image on its own layer and toggle it on and off as you make adjustments to the other image. For critical work, I actually prefer this approach because your eye doesn't even have to move to compare the two images.

Tom M
 
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