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I have a photo I want to make some minor changes on it. It's a photo of my daughter, it's digital format I took it on my Olympus digital camera.
This is probably very easy for you photoshop experts out there.
I want to remove a scratch on her arm and crop it. Then, I want it in sepia tones. I will then order it from an online photo printer. I want it to be printed 8x10.
What do you need to know? How easy is this? How much should I pay? I checked on Ebay and people advertise their services for photo touchup and such and it's around 10-15 dollars per photo from what I can tell.
I'm going to post it online and link you to it in a minute, so you can see what you're working with.
[ February 24, 2004, 04:00 PM: Message edited by: Belle ]
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Could you describe how you want it cropped? should it be for a vertical or horizontal print? And how "close in" do you want it?
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Perhaps you'd like a higher res copy retouched? This one is pretty small. That is, if you are going to want to make prints. Just a thought.
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I like the scratch on her arm. An adorable little girl, in a fluffy dress, but with evidence of adventure. I like it.
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2. You should also have the photoshop wizards take out that diagonal shadow going through the pic as well.
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The copy on my computer is much higher res, when I upload to my group on MSN they automatically reduce the file size.
I can email a copy to you, if you want. But, to answer the question, I just want it cropped closer horizontally, so you don't see so much of the grass on either side of her.
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Does anyone else see Daniel's foot in the very top right hand corner.
kat, normally I'd agree with you, but I think for the purposes of this photo I want the scratch out. I'll keep the original, because I'm like you, I want to see my kids being kids. But, this is for a gift for someone else.
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Also, I have a question for the artistically minded.
I want to take some springtime pictures of my kids. Probably take them to the botanical gardens when everything starts blooming. The purpose is to produce some photos for the grandparents, and perhaps even a photo that can be the subject of an oil painting.
Would you put them all in white? I just wondered about putting them in brightly colored dresses, when the backdrop is going to be very bright and colorful.
I was thinking really casual. White cotton dresses, a white shirt and pair of shorts for Daniels. Bare feet. Have them all sitting somewhere like they're taking a break from an afternoon stroll, nothing all that formally posed.
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Belle, I did a version of the picture you posted. Here's the link.
I am no photographer, so I don't know what good sepia tone looks like. I don't know if I even got close. I'm no designer, so I don't know if I cropped it right. I just wanted to see if I could do it.
As has been said, if you want to print it out 8x10, you'll have to have a hi-res picture. This wouldn't print out very well.
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I don't think they all need to be in white. What's more important is that they are in solid, subdued colors. Pale, pastel, that kind of thing. Daniel in white would work, I just wouldn't put all three girls in white, too. Just my opinion.
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Here you go Belle. I corrected the levels and I tried to blur out the compression artifacts on her skin, but I could probably do something much better with a full size photo.
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Here is the same in a pseudosepia. I don't have an action for making sepia tints, so this is only an approximation.
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Chaeron -- if you have photoshop, you make sepia by going RGB, then grayscale, then tritone with black, a (medium) brown, and a (light) gray. This is almost always followed by increasing the brightness.
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I don't know about the shadow...Let me think on it.
I think I like the shadow gone...I'm gonna try to play with mine some more...now that I got started and it's not as much greek as I thought I'm having fun!
Would everyone be amenable to me making a donation to foobonic in honor of all photoshop masters?
[ February 24, 2004, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Belle ]
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Definitely need to work on the hi-res version of it's going to be printed. Printing is usually 150 - 300 dpi, web pics are 72. Blowing it up to print gives you a fuzzy, pixelated picture.
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I'm getting photoshop in the next couple of weeks. (I have a friend that works for Adobe and will be mailing me a (legit) copy soon). I'm excited.
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*puts in another plug for the scratched version*
Especially if it's a present. It's giving someone a real picture of your daughter, instead of the sanitized version. Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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Adrian, just fly me down to photograph your kids. Log onto AIM or call me later. Am thinking about how to do those portraits of your kids...hmmm...all white...hmmm.
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This is now an official order for everyone who helped Belle out to do an entry for Photoshop Phriday. You really won't regret it.
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Log onto AIM or call me later. Am thinking about how to do those portraits of your kids...hmmm...all white...hmmm.
