attn baby shooters.. need edit critique please!

lilmommalilmomma Registered Users Posts: 1,060 Major grins
edited April 16, 2011 in People
just trying to figure out PS elements so i revisited an older shot of my babe. always used LR2 before.

this is all manual, no actions
please cc my skin smoothing, sharpening, and skin color. thanks!!

any tips & tricks to share regarding any of these please share also.

straight out of camera, from RAW
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EDIT
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Comments

  • sweet carolinesweet caroline Registered Users Posts: 1,589 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    Quite lovely. Just the right amount of skin work, in my opinion. Great job on the skin tone.
  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    I am starting to notice that when I copy an image from Digital Grin and put it into Photoshop the color and levels, contrast seem to change.

    When viewing through FireFox the first image seems to have to much magenta. The second slightly on the yellow side.

    When viewed in Photoshop the second skin color looks pretty good to me.

    I wonder whats up?

    Sam
    www.samlinvillephotography.com
  • lanaerlanaer Registered Users Posts: 78 Big grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    Sam, could Firefox be ignoring the jpg's color profile? It looks like Firefox 3 is able to work with color profiles, but that ability is turned off by default for some reason (I don't know about Firefox 4).

    There's an extension here for enabling it: Color Management Add-on

    Edit: And here's a blog post with better information on Firefox's treatment of color profiles.
  • lilmommalilmomma Registered Users Posts: 1,060 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    thank you caroline!

    Sam- yeah its weird because on here i doubted it for a moment, thinking it was a little warmer than I thought, but it's still up in PS and looks fine also. And i'm using firefox right now

    lanaer thanks for the info!
  • l.k.madisonl.k.madison Registered Users Posts: 542 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2011
    I love the skin smoothing treatment you gave him. Got rid of the uneven skin tone but yet the fuzz on his face still shows up - great work.

    It looks great to me! One little nit: I would exposure brush some of the shadows between his hand and his face just so they're not quite so dark, maybe not even a quarter of a stop. Just me - it's "sellable" as it is, though.

    He's just so stinkin' sweet!
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  • AgnieszkaAgnieszka Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,263 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2011
    Just beautiful! Well done!
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  • VayCayMomVayCayMom Registered Users Posts: 1,870 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2011
    great job, just right !!
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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2011
    Great job on the skin. I like my babies a touch warmer but that is just personal choice. Good stuff.
    Charles
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