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1. Re: What can I do to make this photo more interesting?
davescm Feb 8, 2017 2:08 PM (in response to MarieMeyer)1 person found this helpfulHi
If you just mean brighten up the mid tones and expand the contrast, then a simple curves adjustment layer will give it more contrast
Dropping back the saturation slightly stops the increase in contrast over-saturating the colours
After that - well how far do you want to go.....
(It is just an animated gif made of some duplicate layers and using liquify on the eye and mouth)
Dave
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2. Re: What can I do to make this photo more interesting?
MarieMeyer Feb 8, 2017 2:11 PM (in response to davescm)I LOL'd. Sadly it is for print! I'll give your suggestions a try. Thanks.
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Eternal Warrior Feb 9, 2017 3:04 AM (in response to MarieMeyer)Also, you could use Camera Raw with your image converted to RGB mode (8/16 BIT) to alter the "lighting" etc before converting back to CMYK - But please do it relatively subtle as nothing looks worse (personally) than over saturated etc. images.
I normally try to make changes up to a maximum of + or - 20. Normally I do about +/- 10.
I also try and follow a balancing rule (depending on the image) so say you increase whites by 10 then blacks should be decreased by a maximum of 10.
Obviously, it depends on your style and I like a relatively subtle glossy look to an image going for Print.
But some food for thought I hope...
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5. Re: What can I do to make this photo more interesting?
Simmer1 Feb 9, 2017 3:44 AM (in response to Eternal Warrior)Hi Marie,
Another approach would be to duplicate your image Layer by going Layer> Duplicate Layer.
Next set the duplicated Layer Blendmode to Overlay and reduce the Layer Opacity to 35%:
Finally add a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layer setting the Brightness to 42 and the Contrast to around -3.
Thanks,
Sim
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Trevor.Dennis Feb 9, 2017 6:16 AM (in response to MarieMeyer) -
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MarieMeyer Feb 9, 2017 6:22 AM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)As someone once said, we all have more computing power at our fingertips than every moonshot put together. And what do we do with it? We look at pictures of cats.
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8. Re: What can I do to make this photo more interesting?
cmgap Feb 9, 2017 6:49 AM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)thanks for the chuckle
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9. Re: What can I do to make this photo more interesting?
c.pfaffenbichler Feb 9, 2017 7:55 AM (in response to Simmer1)Another approach would be to duplicate your image Layer by going Layer> Duplicate Layer.
Next set the duplicated Layer Blendmode to Overlay and reduce the Layer Opacity to 35%:I have found this approach an unfortunate one for some time now.
Why add unnecessary pixel data when an unadjusted blank Adjustment Layer with the appropriate Blend Mode achieves the same result without making touch-up of the base layer a problem?