Candi McGrail

Here is what I came up with...

Oops, they are!  Great, anything specific or just paint?

Sorry that took a while.  Had to clear off some space on my computer...

I’ll re work it and post tomorrow ?

Yeah, you’re right.  I guess I didn’t save the entire psd.

do you want me to start over ?

I did, it’s above in my reply

got it. what's next?

oops...well-i used portrait pro to do some retouching and it only uses a jpeg...guessing I should do that as a last step...sorry about that!

How did you do that?  I love what you did to her hair!

something about her eyes is bothering me but I love everything else...

ok, I am back...how does this work?  Shall i do some skin work with frequency separation first?  some dodging and burning?

Here is one more Noelle image-which seems like way more than just a good clean edit?  

Great!  I will take a look at my raw file from this image and submit it in class, it’s an older edit...

im excited to learn this.

i do have an 85mm 1.2 -which should be sufficient to create the blurred background as in the noelle.  I’ll shoot something specific for this too.

i tried to post another link but it deleted my first one...here is another similar edit I love-wondering if it's the same technique?

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001333725257&hc_ref=ARRG_I69STmJi552vdm7XggEpE2j-VD262fj1p-ypK5dVHXko7YjbcdrdxYpNqUAjPA&fref=nf

What about the drop down for profile?  Options are adobe color, adobe landscape, adobe portrait, adobe standard etc.

I downloaded the trial of flood, here is what I did ?

Thank you

I love this image, but feel like it's missing something,  How can I add some ripples to the water?

lol I think you just answered my question.  Sorry!  I got all worried so I went back in to the brightness on the actual monitor and it showed 46 so I thought I did something wrong!  But I know it fell within the guidelines during calibration.  It's a big difference!  Thank you!

No- that is the number on the screen under brightness when I matched to prints

it's the spyder 4 elite and thr dell u2412 ultra sharp

Hi Damien,

I've just recalibrated my screen following your instructions.  It looks to match pretty closely, however my brightness is adjusted all the way down to 46.  It is pretty bright in here, is that why?  I bought the recommended color temperature bulbs when I first read through a long time ago-there are four.  Would you recommend taking two of the bulbs out?  Or is it ok if it is on 46 if it seem to match?

ahhhh. thank you!  I

I am attempting to use your tutorial for evening out the background colour, but when I click with the white eyedropper on the bright side of the image, the color picker does not change.  It stays white no matter where I click.  Why is this happening?