Starting post by Simspix - From Blog post

Here is a shot from December of 2006(has it really been that long?) As you can see, it could use a little help. I will post an edited version also.
Raw file

Here is a screen shot of the original-



Here is one I quickly edited-


This image did need some help. For starters the poor girl got her jacket dirty on the train. I could hardly imagine that being dirty. So a little cloning there.
As I boosted the levels, I let a few of the white/bright areas blow out a tich. I did copy of the background layer, changed the blend mode to overlay at about 20% for the higher contrast in parts of the background by masking all but these two areas.
Burned some in the background.
Dodge various parts of the face.
Cloned a little on her left cheek to even out the shadow line. I still don't really like that shadow line. Should have moved the light a little.
Cloned lightly(about 20%) below eyes and for complexion spots on her face.
Cloned in her part(hair) a little.
Cloned slightly on ridge of nose to smooth out the shadow line from her bump.
Burned area with print on shirt to bring out a little color.
Slightly sharpened eyes, USM, Highpass combo.
Slight skin smoothing on her face. On the lower res version it looks maybe a little much but full size is fine.

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Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:11pm
From forum post by Jeff Jensen

Tighter crop, adjusted levels. Darkened the background. Cloned out a couple of distracting elements.
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:16pm
Joe Dickerson's version-

'My rendering; RAW file-not much change turned it into a TIFF for modifying. Cropped, lightened the eye's, blended the facial features, cloned out the smudges on jacket, added lighter color streaks to hair, chalk and charcoaled the shot, darkened slightly with brightness change.'
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:17pm
From Forum post
Summer Derrick



I had fun with this.

duplicate Bkgd layer, Opacity to 50% and blending mode to soft light
copies red channel into new layer set to soft light
created new bkgd layer and brought to top of the stack. Op = 30%
Levels adjustment layer
curves adjustment layer
Made copy of everything and placed it at the top of stack. Masked out background and places the became too noisy
Selective color adjustment layer
color balance adjustment layer
new layer of everything to clone out dirt of jacket, light spot at top right corner, dark areas around her mouth and added some missing eyebrow. burned edges down.
sharpened eyes with unshark mask
lighted eyes with mask and screen mode
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:19pm
From Forum Post - Tim Walter

Well, what didnt I do this. I was systematic in my approach, try to fix one issue at a time.
I had to adjust contrast first and bring back some of the tonal value as the pants and sweatshirt were blown. Then I went about trying to even out the skin without over killing it. She had horrible raccoon eyes in the orignal, the shadows under the lip and on the left side of the face caused uneven tones through out. I tried countless times to do it by hand, but in the end nik effects dynamic skin softener worked the best. I blended this back in at 80% on the working layer. I then lightened up the hair and darkened the background a bit. I was now working on getting her to pop from the background. Before working on the background I added a slight orton effect to the image to give it a little more "feel". I then debated on a blurring it or just darkening it with a enveloping burn vignette. I did alot more to this, but I forgot the all the steps. There was alot of fine tuning along the way with little trims here and there. Anyhow here is the end result.
take 1

a crop attempt. The lower arm placement made cropping difficult as I felt it lent to an uneasy composition.

I forgot that I warmed it a bit, as it was a tad cool to my liking and my screen rendering.
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:21pm
From Forum Post - Brian

Tried my hand a touch. It is pretty much amateur hour, but I liked the idea of a bit of film grain, and a nice contrast black and white. Cloned out the top pipe distractor and added a bit of grunge, a catch light and crop.
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:24pm
From Brad Sharp

Doug - love your idea! Keep it going.

1. Filter/Distort/Lens Correction:
Straightened image so pole was vertical.
Made her lean forward a bit.
3. Adjustments
Levels/Auto:
Enhance Per Channel Contrast
Shadows - Clip 0.10%
Highlights - 0.10%
4. Filter/Liquify:
Moved in the sweatshirt that was hanging down
(makes her look thinner - like she really is)
5. Healing Brush:
Removed blemishes from face
Removed shadow on her left jaw line
6. Swift Skin (medium):
Plug in that softens portraits
Created mask on Swift Skin layer
Removed softness over eyes, hair, lips, and part nose (reduced opacity over nose)
7. Saturation:
Added saturation to lips
8. Lasso:
Created layer with just the background
9. Adjustments: to background layer
Levels: Increased Contrast
Hue & Saturation: increased saturation
10. Lasso:
Created layer with just her hair
11. Adjustments: to hair layer
Curves: made slightly lighter
Hue & Saturation: increased saturation slightly
12. Burn:
Darkened her part slightly
Created vignette

My apologies, but after posting the first photo, I felt the sweatshirt was too light, and took away too much attention from her face. Here is the second photo...

Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:26pm
From Forum Post- Summer Derrick
Doug, I love that you were able to pull out the detail in the background(the shot you took). Also, I never thought about cloning the part in her hair. It made a big difference. I think I will be using that from now on.
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:27pm
From Forum Post - FireStarter Photography

I just added alot of darker stuff to the picture...added a red and purple make up(im surprised very few people added makeup) ...made her really pale to add to the grundgey look...but i didnt do anything to the clothes
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:29pm
From Forum post - Rusty Sessions

Well here is mine. It is the first I have done like this and will play with it a bit more again but here is my first attempt with this look.

I forgot to put the edits that I did down. It was about 15 different steps, many layers and groups along with masks. Also some brush work and clone stamp work.
If you would like more info on it I can go more into detail step by step.
Also, looking at it now I don't really care for the pattern to the right side but oh well lo.
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:30pm
From Forum Post - Al Perry

I'm not sure how to include the pic but here goes. I softened the face and brightened the eyes with the pp filter. Then using layers, put an old background I shot in NY. With another layer, I added some dirt.

I really wanted to crop out the bottom half but decided not to.
Permalink Reply by Simspix on September 3, 2009 at 3:31pm
From Forum Post - John Crossle


Here is what I did. I cleaned up the dirt off the sweater, softened the shadow cast from the flash on the train itself, proceeded to add an levels adjustment level, and adjusted the rgb a bit into the positive, then converted the image into a 32 bit, then back into an 8 bit image, to bring forth the HDR adjustment menu, and tweaked the tonal settings a bit. and walla. here is the end result.
Permalink Reply by Richard G Newton on May 9, 2011 at 2:02pm

Mr Sims,

      This is the best Photoshop lesson I've ever seen. 

 

      Rick Newton 

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