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Soft Beauty


Soft Beauty
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Copyright: Manuel Librodo (manny) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 525 W: 24 N: 1485] (11941)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-07
Categories: Friends/Family
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2004-08-22 12:22
Viewed: 2320
Favorites: 3 [view]
Points: 28
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I hope you're not tired of seeing her here. This time, Jaja is in her room. This is a TE collaborative effort. Why?

ZANDRA (zto) PP'ed this shot. I REALLY like what she did. Here are her steps:

1. I copied the picture to a new layer
2. By using the clone tool i cloned out the overexposion on Jalas cheek
3. Copied this layer and added diffuse glow (Values 2,10,15 - opacity
was 50% and blend mode Normal)
4.Copied eyes to a new layer and added unsharp mask to them
(Values 150, 1, 0)
5.Copied her eye brows to a new layer set to multiply and opacity was
25%. used a layer mask to remove parts which i did not want to have darker
6. Made a selection of only her lips by using a path.
7. selected only her theeth in the same manner as the lips.
8. Made two layer copies of the layer where i had cloned out the
overexposion (see step 2). I set the first to darken as blend mode and
the second to lighten.
9. On the darken mood i added 40% Gaussina Blur and on the lighten layer
i aded 60%
10. Created a new layer and made sure it was my top layer.
11. Made all other layers except these 3 non visual
12. By holding down the alt key and chose Merge visible i merged the two
blured layers in to my new layer (make sure the new empty layer is the
acive one when merging them)
13. Made all the other layers vivible again and made the 2 blur layers
non visible
14. Set the opacity on the new layer to 20% (20-40% usually gives a good
result)
15. Added a layermask to this layer and removed the effect on the eyes,
lips, theeth and her hair.
16. i added a gradient map going from (RGB 110,60,21) to white. Opacity
was 30% and fill was 50%
17. saved as JPEG and ran it in NI
Eagle78, Quark, saparot, Dingo, letr, bullybeef53, danbachmann, WALTERito, timmiles, sklo, agrimace, perryhooter, bingbong, rhavecilla has marked this note useful
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Wow...what a explosive combination!!! A Manny´s with Zandra processing...cool :))) And the result?? Well...if you want to see art just sit and admire this!

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  • Quark Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 1339 W: 10 N: 29] (66)
  • [2004-08-22 15:41]

This is "another" one from you, Manuel and I think it's the shoulder....
It makes this picture romantic and a little sensual....

And sometimes in a glance, in a smile which are hidden the words qu'on n'a ever known to say...
A pure wonder the photograph, excellent final improvement which but well in value this beautiful star...

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  • Dingo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2743 W: 372 N: 2625] (11952)
  • [2004-08-22 17:43]

Manuel (and Zandra), this is a stunningly beautiful portrait. The model is beautiful, of course, but this PP really enhances her beauty. TFS, TFS². GTF.

Manual and Zandra - this is truly an amazing colaboration of work by you both.
Great composition. The lighting is good. Everything is perfect.
Well done to both of you.

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  • letr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1162 W: 419 N: 1111] (6780)
  • [2004-08-22 17:57]

Very good portrait Manny, like the pose here, the pp certainly worked out well, the soft nuances makes this picture very dreamy..just think the eyes are just a tiny bit oversharpend..neverhteless a great shot !

Great shot with a superb pp. You make a great duo. How about you do the opposite next time. Would love to see that.

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  • Neige Gold Star Critiquer [C: 610 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2004-08-23 3:06]

Just perfectly nice. And what a long list of pp processes... lol. This is high tech pp and it give excellent result. I'm not methodic, i never keep what i do with my photo, i should start to do it (but i'm so lazy).

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  • padre Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1419 W: 90 N: 263] (4035)
  • [2004-08-23 19:31]

Wow, this is excellent work. Her right arm is a tad soft but it works to create a good dof.

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  • capa Silver Star Critiquer [C: 22 W: 4 N: 9] (422)
  • [2004-08-24 16:59]

wow, amazing picture, good pp work.5*

She is wonderful. The softness you are talking is an atribute also of her. I love those happy pieces of her around her ear. Very beautiful, Manuel!

Amazing, me a very newby to photoshop work...I suppose people do call me a naturalist. So please silly question what programme did you do all this in? And is it possible to get a copy of it on the net?

Great picture, as usual. PP info is very useful, just proves some of my experiments.
Thanks for sharing!

Wala kang kupas idol!!!

There is nothing to PP if you have not taken the wonderful angle in this photo.

Love it, I wish I can see the un-PPed photo.

:D

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