Puzzled how to edit this....
I've been struggling with this photo that I LOVE from the woman's facial expression but I'm just not sure the best way to edit it?
I've thought about blurring the background, taking out the background or just leaving it alone (which I'm not satisfied with )
Would love to hear your ideas...
One way is to remove the color in the background only, and then burn the lighter areas. I did this quickly, so edges of their heads etc are imperfect.
Linda From Maine wrote:
One way is to remove the color in the background only, and then burn the lighter areas. I did this quickly, so edges of their heads etc are imperfect.
Thank you! Hadnt thought of that
Annie B wrote:
Thank you! Hadnt thought of that
There will probably be bits and pieces of several suggestions that you'll be able to mix and match to your preference
At first I just removed cyan and yellow, then I saw some red remaining. So you don't have to go totally b&w. Just some de-saturating, along with burning any overly bright areas, might work nicely. Often, small changes or going slowly, one step at a time, works better.
You can tone down (darken) all the highlights in the backround with judicious use of the clone stamp tool......
imagemeister wrote:
You can tone down (darken) all the highlights in the backround with judicious use of the clone stamp tool......
A lot less work to use the BURN tool.
Annie B wrote:
I've been struggling with this photo that I LOVE from the woman's facial expression but I'm just not sure the best way to edit it?
I've thought about blurring the background, taking out the background or just leaving it alone (which I'm not satisfied with )
Would love to hear your ideas...
Hows about this. Select subjects, reverse mask, reduce exposure to get what you want behind the woman's head. Then de-mask the lower part using the feathered brush to get what you want in the foreground.
Two minutes work in ACR.
Full area exposure reduction of all but woman and child
Foreground exposure not reduced as much as the rest
I like your photo AS-IS. What is the woman's expression concerning? Is it because of the bird coming so close perhaps? If so then darkening the background leaves us wondering what her worry is all about since the bird is no longer prominent in the picture/story.
Dennis
dennis2146 wrote:
Gracias Amigo.
Dennis
Me, too...I think you need the context. Could increase contrast and remove woman on right.
I agree that the bird should be left natural or maybe even brightened a bit. It's the critical element of the story.
Annie B wrote:
I've been struggling with this photo that I LOVE from the woman's facial expression but I'm just not sure the best way to edit it?
I've thought about blurring the background, taking out the background or just leaving it alone (which I'm not satisfied with )
Would love to hear your ideas...
The expression would fit if you make her looking at a Dinosaur sneaking at them from the top left.
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