Liv - 1: Erase blanket wrinkles

[lsin]

Hi Damien, you have been helping me with the below pic in the Levels class. I was trying to use the dodge tool to minimise the shadows in the pink blanket to make them less noticable, but they are starting to turn blue in colour! is this the best method for this or is it possible to eliminate the wrinkles entirely? i have attached the pic and 100% crop of one wrinkle blanket area below

[Samantha LaRue]

Have you read this article yet? It takes dodge/burning a step further. It doesn't work in all situations, but it may work here.

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/04/the-handyman-method.html

[Damien Symonds]

I agree with Sam.  And I'd say once you fix the colour, you might not even need much dodging.

[lsin]

OK will try this now. will i do the colour fix first and then the dodge and burn (its the opposite way around in the tut)

 

[lsin]

1st attempt, how is this?

[Damien Symonds]

So far so good.

The question is, should we remove the texture from the parts of the blanket where it's visible?  I mean, do you feel it's too obvious that there are some textured parts and some not?

[lsin]

to be honest, i am still so new to this that i dont know what the difference would be to remove all the texture or not. Since you are the expert, i will trust your guidance until i develop my own "eye" and "style" for the photos.

Right now, i would like to do the best that i am able to do. I would love to erase all the wrinkles, but that obviously comes at a price of loosing some/all texture. we could try it and see? what do you think?

[Samantha LaRue]

50 minutes ago, lsin said:

to be honest, i am still so new to this that i dont know what the difference would be to remove all the texture or not. Since you are the expert, i will trust your guidance until i develop my own "eye" and "style" for the photos.

Right now, i would like to do the best that i am able to do. I would love to erase all the wrinkles, but that obviously comes at a price of loosing some/all texture. we could try it and see? what do you think?

I'd vote for having the texture match. It seems distracting to me in the examples you provided for the spots you removed wrinkles from to not have the same texture.

I'm not quite sure what Damien will recommend to fix it however. Curious to see what he has to say.

[Damien Symonds]

Dust & Scratches filter, maybe at about 4/2.

[lsin]

this seems to take all the tecture from the fabric, was this the objective?

[Samantha LaRue]

2 hours ago, lsin said:

this seems to take all the tecture from the fabric, was this the objective?

Yep.  Now the places with less texture aren't as obvious.

[Damien Symonds]

Yes, that's exactly the point.