PP help please (Page 2): Thank you for your efforts. I does look better, and I completely forgot about that feature in Portrait Professional. I am working on a different computer, I...

buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

roadking11 wrote:

I believe from your post that you are mostly wanting to decrease the size of the nose. I have Portrait Professional and it gives you that ability. I have increased the size of the eyes and decreased the size of the nose and balanced the highlights and shadows a little. I can not do anything about not have a defusing screen but the photo does look a little better.

Thank you for your efforts. I does look better, and I completely forgot about that feature in Portrait Professional. I am working on a different computer, I have it on my other one. It makes a big difference.

buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

Thank you for your work. Every time I would try to burn in the shadow, all I got was gray. You have very even tones. What exactly did you do that I wasn't doing?

Mercer Loc: Houston, TX, USA

I don't see anything terribly wrong about this photo when viewed as a candid portrait. Perhaps the term "lipstick on a pig" should have been avoided. The girl is lovely and the remark could easily be mininterpreted.

buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

Mercer wrote:

I don't see anything terribly wrong about this photo when viewed as a candid portrait. Perhaps the term "lipstick on a pig" should have been avoided. The girl is lovely and the remark could easily be mininterpreted.

Thank you for the positive comments. When you get to know some of the posters, you find there is a lot of tongue-in-cheek. From the Captain, I enjoyed his remark. Perhaps from some others, I would have taken it differently. And I was joking when I replied to his comment.

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

Mercer wrote:

I don't see anything terribly wrong about this photo when viewed as a candid portrait. Perhaps the term "lipstick on a pig" should have been avoided. The girl is lovely and the remark could easily be mininterpreted.

I am not politically correct. The "lipstick on a pig" phrase has been around for years to refer to the inability to correct something beyond correction. Mis-interpretation is the fault of the reader, not mine.

It is like the word "niggardly" a term meaning a person is cheap. Misinterpretation by an illiterate is not my fault.

I will continue to use the "lipstick on a pig" term just to annoy the PC crowd. :-)

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

CaptainC wrote:

I am not politically correct. The "lipstick on a pig" phrase has been around for years to refer to the inability to correct something beyond correction. Mis-interpretation is the fault of the reader, not mine.

It is like the word "niggardly" a term meaning a person is cheap. Misinterpretation by an illiterate is not my fault.

I will continue to use the "lipstick on a pig" term just to annoy the PC crowd. :-)

How about "Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Just another way of saying "It can't be done"

prestonphoto Loc: Bath, NY

buckwheat wrote:

All rightie! I can go far with that knowlege!

Gave it a shot with picasa. CaptC - "lipstick on a pig" made my day. lol lol

gdwsr Loc: Northern California

gdwsr wrote:

I just learned some new techniques with Elements yesterday I want to try on this. What software are you using?

I wasn't able to do what I was hoping in Elements but Aperture has some nice brush capability. I used Multiply applied to highlights and Skin Smoothing brush to soften the shadow/highlights edge.

As suggested before, you can use Portrait Professional to adjust the nose further if you want.

BTW I have found that the Burn tool works well with B&W but Multiply is usually better for color. Burn adds gray to the image while Multiply adds the same color as if you were painting with water colors.

Hope that helps.

Aperture Adjustment

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

CaptainC wrote:

I am not politically correct. The "lipstick on a pig" phrase has been around for years to refer to the inability to correct something beyond correction. Mis-interpretation is the fault of the reader, not mine.

It is like the word "niggardly" a term meaning a person is cheap. Misinterpretation by an illiterate is not my fault.

I will continue to use the "lipstick on a pig" term just to annoy the PC crowd. :-)

LOL,

As far as all the edits.....

"That dog won't hunt."

Bozsik Loc: Orangevale, California

You need to do a reshoot, but here is another attempt. I am recoverying from a shoulder surgery and I can't use my right arm for photographing, so I thought I could play around with this.

Thanks for giving me something to do for a few minutes. Being imobilized is driving me crazy though.

Bozsik Loc: Orangevale, California

Mercer wrote:

I don't see anything terribly wrong about this photo when viewed as a candid portrait. Perhaps the term "lipstick on a pig" should have been avoided. The girl is lovely and the remark could easily be mininterpreted.

:thumbup:

morris

Here Is my take,Stay out of sun!!!!

grubnide Loc: Sydney

Since the highlight on the nose gives the illusion of the nose appearing twisted, the right side of the nose was copied, pasted and transformed horizontally to fit the opposite side. The area was then corrected with the healing brush tool. The shadows darkened with 2-3% burn and dodge tools and at a low opacity. The layers were then merged. Finally, the tip of the nose was outlined with the rectangular marquee tool and warp applied to narrow the tip very slightly. Thanks for the exercise and all the funny comments that came from the posting.

Bozsik Loc: Orangevale, California

grubnide wrote:

Since the highlight on the nose gives the illusion... (show quote)

Please quote who you are replying to, otherwise we have no idea what you are referring to.

Bozsik Loc: Orangevale, California

morris wrote:

Here Is my take,Stay out of sun!!!!

You should really go to the trouble of reading the poster's original post before removing all doubt.