Photoshop Tutorials... tips & tricks

[maxhitman]

Originally Posted by cylnz

...

I have 36 different versions of tones and colors of this one particular piece.
I just cannot get happy with the skin tone.
I've changed lighting, paths, channels, retinex, chromacity, pin lighting,
soft lighting, Lumas, you name it. My frustration is how it ended up here
asking for help lol

I'm doing this post on my phone so I have to flip back and forth and edit this as I go down your bullet points

I know how you feel. I also get a little frustated which final image coloring
tones I should use (and skin-tone coloring) when I´m working on an image. There are always a million colorings to use, but in the end you can only choose one.

Whatever you decide as a final image, it is up to you,
because it is your art.

Never feel bad about asking for help or get an honest opinion from
other people. That is the only way we get to know if we are doing
something worthwhile, or if we made a little error we did not notice on the image before. We are not "robots" or perfect "A.I. machines", we are only
human !
I also make alot of mistakes and I like it when people give
me an opinion or a suggestion on my art. That way I will try my best to fix
it and will do a much better one next time.


Always keep in mind that no matter what, there will be people out there
which will not like the art, AND there will be people that will love it.
An artist cannot always please everyone in the entire world,
so what really matters is that YOU personally love your art and
your cool creations. Feel good about your art and create more !
Enjoy the good times creating things for yourself too and not just
to please everyone.
Have you noticed my crazy little signiture banners I use over the past
years here?
I create one little photoshop image everyday, all the time. This keeps
me happy and also learning on how to use Photoshop better. Because if
I stop using it, I will forget how to work with it.
These little signiture-banners are nothing special, but it makes me feel
good about myself and doing something I like.
You also feel good about your art and what you create !

[maxhitman]

Originally Posted by MasterBates

if youre offering I got two walls that need tweaking

i would like the watermark removed from the bottom right hand corner of
the black picture and the background replaced on the one of the gorgeous
model Marissa Miller her background should be anything not white maybe
abit darker to accentuate her stellar body
thanks in advance

Good looking model
Nice looking background too.

My suggestion to remove that sig out of it, you could try
a "clone-tool" and/or a "Spot healing brush tool"
- Go around that area slowly and use the sorrounding colors to fill in
and remove the signiture.
If you have some swirl-line brushes, maybe you could also make the
same background line to paint over the one behind the sig.

Do you have these images in a larger size ?
It is always best to work on a large sized image to get better results.

Did you try doing this yourself ?
You have to try it too MasterBates. It´s not very complicated.
...........................


Cool job you did on that girl cut-out Cylnz

...........................

I forgot to mention, in the girl image, she has some sand on her right leg (knee)
and if you are going to use a diferent background which is not a beach scene,
you might want to think about removing the sand on that leg.

[cylnz]

how's this?

[cylnz]

critiques are the best thing you can get.

[ViceLikeEye]

Originally Posted by cylnz

how's this?

Overall, I dig it. But if you want critiques, I have a couple small points. If it was me, I would have lowered the model. Seeing her legs and feet with no discernible or tangible floor, it looks a little wonky that she's just floating there. There's also no shadow or reflection of her, that might help her not look like she's floating. Overall the extraction isn't bad, but I see some areas that look a little weird - there's a halo around her thighs and other areas - maybe that was intentional.

For the positives, I like the background image. It lends itself to the light and shiny quality of the model. And you really can't go wrong with a hot blonde with big tits in a tiny bikini.

Please don't take any of the critiques negatively, especially if this was a quick job for another member. I genuinely think you're one of the most talented artists on "Suzy". I'm still using your Emanuelle wallpaper on my Chromebook - it's so good.

I don't know if that's a recent photo of Marissa Miller, but damn, she's stunningly gorgeous.

[cylnz]

heh, if you check out the source pick of marisa, it SHOULD be a nice beach pic, but it's been cut out (poorly) and to hide it they upped the gamma to crazy mode then tried to tone her down with an auto filter. I tried to tie her into the light in the background to hide/disguise as much of the white outline as i could by having the new background shine forward around her. No, it's far from perfect, but it;s the best i could do in a short amount of time.

What we really need is a good version of her pic, preferrably un-photoshopped lol.

found it easily. Arg.


we were fucked from the outset....

sunset backlit with gold reflectors on her. We never stood a chance

same shoot, real colors instead of sunset reflectors.

here's what she really looks like

this one is right off getty images

[cylnz]

On a different note, have any of you noticed todays posts of Salma around the interwebs in the red dress? In several of them I noticed they used an adjustment layer in linear burn mode for some reason to make her look darker/older. No idea why. It really brought out age lines and stretch marks something awful.
http://veterperementour.ru/showpost.p...postcount=1293
http://veterperementour.ru/showpost.p...postcount=1292

normal:

linear burn layer mode adjustment layer:


lol. Why?

[maxhitman]

Originally Posted by cylnz

how's this?

Looks great Cylnz

ViceLikeEye has also made some good points of view.


Now that I am looking at the original, I notice that she is on a
beach scenario.
Its not a bad photo. Maybe a little blurry.
I have had to work with much dificult images in the past, but there is
always a way to bring some beauty to a dificult image.
There is always hope ! NEVER give up on anything.
You gotta twist and squeeze the juices outta those pixels !


Personally, I would remove the sand from her legs and repaint those
nice legs areas. If I was to use it in that "Neon-Digital art " background,
I would probably make the colors even more hard colored and THEN ADD
those background colors as a reflection into her body+face sides.
Sort of like a Gelatin-color effect, or Dual-Lighting effect.
Damn it, I can´t remember how you call it now.

Let me search for a quick tutorial on YouTube about what I mean...
Here is what I mean...

Simple Way To Apply a DUAL LIGHTING Effect In Photoshop

You Tube

You Tube

more tutorials here...

Dual Lighting Effect with Just 2 Layers in Photoshop
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Osgt7LP0720

Dual Lighting Effect In Photoshop - Method For Best Results
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-Lig_Y3zk

It´s not that dificult to do.
You can use the same background colors from that wallpaper
(Green and Pink) and put it on the girl body and face
as reflected lighting. I think that would bring some "POP" to the
image even more.

I would even make her body much bigger , so as to almost touch her
head on top of the wallpaper border.
At the moment she seems kind of small.

...................................................................

Poor Salma ! What have they done to you honey?!
That is defenitly not eye-pleasing and makes her look ugly.

Perhaps the person who made these effects did not know what they
were doing, or was merely doing something "malicious".
We WANT and NEED our beloved movie stars to look Gorgeous!

[cylnz]

on the salma pics, if you look a bit you'll see exactly the same photos, only not linear burned, she loks normal lol.

There's a famous (fake) pic of cindy Crawford from a few years ago, they did the same thing.

[maxhitman]

MMMMmmmm.... Monica !
She looks delicious in your artsy photo Cylnz

Love it alot!
Congratulations on a fine job!
Don´t touch it anymore. She looks perfect.