Charliepw

yes of course, if you need a higher res one then let me know. if you do want to show kids faces, then i can ask the parents.

oh my goodness, you are genius. i've used your settings and had a play and done it on a few other photographs. Damien, which class is this type of thing taught in please?

wow thank you. I've downloaded the psd and am now studying it and will try it on the bigger image.

how how annoying i've titled this post Charlie! what a dufus i am, please any Admin, feel free to change that.

Hello there I've read this post - which looks fab, but the psd file has expired and i can't see how to report it. I have a similar baby drool / dribble problem. Here is a 700 x 700 px crop and here is also the whole file. I haven't gotten around to editing the drool on the face yet, but i can cope with this ok, it's the drool on the pink top that is my problem. I would really appreciate any pointers.

are you talking about the background on the darker image, and how much i've masked off around her head and how i've created a circle around her head? If yes, then thank you for pointing that out, it does perhaps need a bit of tweaking.

ooh what do you mean? please show me.

yes of course, here is the photo we were working with, which i really like, but i think my version is slightly bluer, but that seems to be coming from the texture. and i've also added another i've been playing with using the same method. i'm loving it.

i've been playing, i'm really loving it. I think i need to make some more textures, do you have any guidance / knowledge on which types of textures go with which types of images? ie: does a darker texture go better with a darker background, and a lighter texture go better with a lighter background?

fab, thank you Damien, i'll be trying this tomorrow to see how it works and then i'll try it a few other photos.

Hello, i'm just having a go at this. did you mask the texture onto the background only? and leave the face clear? and did you do anything to her skin at all?

Wow, that's fantastic, i shall now go in and have a play with adding a couple of layer levels. I love those colours.

Yes i do have a few, i've taken a few textures myself to experiment with, which one did you use?

Thank you Damien, i really like the overall colour and the look of the textured background. what did you do? did you do anything to her skin at all?

i've lowered the exposure slightly and now there is no clipping

Hello, sorry for the delay, i managed to do the above just now and there is a little bit of clipping on the cheek, you were right, what can i do to remove that?

there isn't any clipping showing up on her cheek. what can i do to check?

doh, didn't even think of that. and bizarrely you just popped up on my desktop saying you'd replied, very clever.

thank you this is SOOR with wb, noise edits done. i'll post a big jpg below, or i can post a .dng if that's better

Hello again, i finally persuaded my child that it was a good idea to sit on a stool and look grumpy at me. As you can see she simply adored doing this for me. ...anyway though i tried to recreate the lighting for this shot from this gorgeous one by Winterwood Photography and hopefully it's similar enough for you to be able to give some feedback. I can upload a higher res version if you like. I would love to know how to create the painterly look that appears with this shot and other shots by Lisa Visser, i'd then like to play around in my own style. I love how creamy it is and how it seems completely timeless. Thanks for any help Charlie

ahhh, ok, thank you. i'll try again at the weekend (or earlier if i can) and repost.

I do really appreciate your feedback, thank you. I will shoot again but i won't be able to do it until next weekend unfortunately, sigh... In the meantime are you able to give me a pointer in changing the lighting please, as i think i'm a bit lost, i do think that this image of mine is similar in lighting to this one of Lisa Visser. sorry there are two files attached, i can't figure out how to delete one, and the second has had colour and luminance tweaked and shadows lifted a little.

i know the first images were not matched very well, but thank you for whatever help you can offer. what about any of these photos from Lisa Visse, the one with the hat has shadows down the left hand side. Can you give any insight into finished look, i know it's cleaner skin and a texture on the background on some of them. I've darkened my image a little bit (perhaps too much) and i've cleaned up the shadows with colour and luminance Is this any better to work with?

Hello Following on from hnicholson post on Feb 2nd where he wanted to emulate Winterwood photography (who did your raw and levels classes) I'd love to try to emulate that beautiful skin texture. Here are three photos of my daughter with varying amounts of light on her face, just basic raw tweaks.