an old style hand coloured sepia?

eye-max

I liked the serenity of the look, in my mind I saw it as an old style hand coloured sepia. Comments welcomed
Work Flow

• shot in raw
• Converted to lab colour. Adjusted A & B channels for pop, sharpened lightness channel.
• Converted to RGB made a copy & converted to sepia using an action, Johny's B&W Package V2.0.
• Copied RGB colour version & pasted into new file. Copied Sepia and pasted it as top layer. Erased portions of top layer to reveal lips, eyes, cheeks, etc.
• Merged layers then copied layer. Applied Gaussian blur to bottom layer. Switched top layer to multiply and reduced opacity to 92%.

adrian_k

depends what you were after.
If you wanted 'ghostly', you've done very well.
If not, I think you've overdone it - it's too dark.

It's a nice distant expression she has. Calm.

eye-max wrote:

I liked the serenity of the look, in my mind I saw it as an old style hand coloured sepia. Comments welcomed

Steve Cavigliano

Max,
I'm with Adrian on this one. She has such mature beauty and looks to have beautiful blue eyes. I feel saddened that I couldn't better make those features out. This is definitely a keeper image But, I would love to see more of the subject's beauty without having to commit to laser eye surgery.... Too dark my friend

Steve

twinbnj

I don't know if the looks is an old style hand coloured sepia, my first impression is old master oil painting - or somewhat of a Dragon style.
I like the overall look you got with this. Agree it's a keeper.