So in the past I've generally stayed away from heavy editing in PS, mostly because I've not done much of it in the past, and Lightroom does such a great job that I haven't seen a huge need. I never learned how to really use Photoshop to it's fullest and I'm not saying that I have now, but I did some heavy layering etc to this photograph.
Needless to say, I'll be using PS a whole lot more now that I have learned some techniques, I think it really made a huge difference in the photograph.
So now comes my request,
I'm wanting your opinion, is this photograph believable? I did a lot of adjustment to it, but tried to be as conservative as I could (a lot of steps, but very light on them all). I'm hoping the PS doesn't show too much, the model will notice, but I think it's flattering. But if you hadn't seen the original would you think this photograph to be retouched?
I'll post the original and then the version I edited heavily. The first one has just had basic global adjustments made in Lightroom.
I can describe my method for touching up this portrait if anyone is interested, but most of you probably already do this sort of thing easily.
SLC
Lightroom version
Final version (Photoshop CS3)
Thanks!
Needless to say, I'll be using PS a whole lot more now that I have learned some techniques, I think it really made a huge difference in the photograph.
So now comes my request,
I'm wanting your opinion, is this photograph believable? I did a lot of adjustment to it, but tried to be as conservative as I could (a lot of steps, but very light on them all). I'm hoping the PS doesn't show too much, the model will notice, but I think it's flattering. But if you hadn't seen the original would you think this photograph to be retouched?
I'll post the original and then the version I edited heavily. The first one has just had basic global adjustments made in Lightroom.
I can describe my method for touching up this portrait if anyone is interested, but most of you probably already do this sort of thing easily.
SLC
Thanks!