Portrait in the park

No I'll leave it to the experts Thanks

Fully agree

I'm here to learn, so any of you guys can show me the way.
As a result of this thread I've discovered a couple of thing in Paintshop. Hoping to have a play this week and re-hash some of my shots.

Ted, here is one from the original file.
I have the full size one that I will email it back to you. Its cropped perfectly for A4 size print, hope you like it.

Will look into the other ones later,

Not much available for Paintshop Pro, but for those with Photoshop or Elements, this is an excellent source for VERY easy to follow video tutorials.

They also produce a monthly mag, Digital Photo, which comes with a free CD of tutorials, complete with start photos so you can follow along with the tutorial, and free stuff like borders, textures, etc.

link

Not listed on the left, but if you type 'paintshop video' in the search bar there are a few tutorials, but I'm sure even viewing the Photoshop ones will give you some ideas to try in Paintshop.

Kay

Amin!! What can I say...wow!!

I might be learning about the camera, but it appears I have a long way to go with the software!!

That will be getting printed and framed I think.

A blow-by-blow account of what you did would be very useful..if you don't mind

Ted, here is what I did:

I created two layers

I pulled the shadow level 50% and the highlights to 50% on the first layer ((to bring the eyes out and make the shadow parts more visible)


Then as the original background was much nicer and darker than what it turned out when I pulled the shadow/highlight, and it became grainy with the 50% increase, I decided to bring back the original background. So used the eraser and removed all the green lighter background from around your son so that the original darker background popped up with just your son's image having the impact of the shadow/highlight effect.

Then merged all the visible layers.

Then went ahead to work on the eyes. Used the lasso tool to isolate both eyes and then sharpened 100%.

Then decided to work on parts of the arm and ear that have been overexposed. So I used the brush tool and picked up the colour from the part of the forearm which had nice skin tones and then went ahead and painted the burnt area with that tone, all over the arm, hand and fingers.

That completed the full image.

I was going to try to do something on the part of the face that the light has fallen more but after a few clonings decided agaisnt it. As it is doesn't look bad at all, in fact looks quite natural and I like it the way it is. Remember also that the less the image is manipulated the better it is for printing.

There you go, hope it helps,

By the way, this might not be the best way to do it, remember I am not exactly experienced like some of the members, I have my limitations but this is how it works for me. Am still learning with time. I am sure a few of them here might suggest you better ways of improving the image.

Amin

same procedure here




On this one I ended up smoothening the skin a little, the image is pretty sharp and I liked giving it a softer tone. I only did it on this resized image, the original A4 size I have for you is without any skin softening, so will leave it to your taste, if you want it softening you can always just do it. But I like this version.

Thanks AMin.

More toys for me to look for in PSP

couldn't help cropping the image to have a look at it, kind of like this crop, but people have different tastes on how to crop the above image. You will be able to have a go at various crops from the original image