Picky portrait edit help

[Foques]

Greetings, 

 

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a straightforward way to edit my way out of the situation..

The female in the middle of the shot finds this (as well as few other images) "unusable" since she looks fat. 

http://www.foquesphoto.com/img/s5/v129/p1610792305-4.jpg

 

thank you in advance

[Damien Symonds]

Sorry, I can't see the photo.

[Foques]

oops.. sorry about that. 

let me try once again.

 

this is so bizzare.. forum adds some extra characters to the path

 

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Edited February 24, 2016 by Foques

[Damien Symonds]

Oh gee, the fabric is going to make this hard. May I see a closer crop of her tummy area?

[Foques]

here is the original size. I can upload a crop later on today.

 

thank you!

[Foques]

here is the crop

[Damien Symonds]

That just looks like you cropped the same web sized version.  I want a good close crop from the full-sized master file.

[Foques]

no, not really. 

This is a crop from a full size JPG.

attaching once again..

[Christina Keddie]

What are the pixel dimensions of your full-sized JPG?  I'm really, really hoping that there's some kind of web upload compression going on here...

[Foques]

the attached original is  2383 x 3574

[Damien Symonds]

Oh, ok!  In that case, can you do this for me?

[Foques]

let me try this again. sorry about the delay..

[Damien Symonds]

Oh no!  Big problem. Please fix it.

[Foques]

not quite sure what the problem is, sorry.  

Image does have the sRGD color profile embedded.

[Samantha LaRue]

40 minutes ago, Foques said:

not quite sure what the problem is, sorry.  

Image does have the sRGD color profile embedded.

No, it's in AdobeRGB. Open the image up in PS and take a screenshot for us. 

[Foques]

perhaps, i'm looking at something else...

[Samantha LaRue]

Well that's weird. That's definitely sRGB there. 

Tell me about how you save your images? Do you use an action? What save options do you use? 

[Foques]

command+shift+s => name the file.

Does the profile affect the way how I would post process my way out of this?

[Samantha LaRue]

It won't affect the actual editing in this case, but it does present a probably when sharing your images online. Images in AdobeRGB can appear green/grey when viewed online. And it would really suck to do all the hard work on this, just to find out the profile was wrong and that you would have to start over etc. 

I'm really puzzled why it saved as AdobeRGB though! I don't have a Mac so I don't know what window that shortcut opens. Can you take a screenshot of that? I just want to make sure we aren't overlooking anything.
 

[Christina Keddie]

1 hour ago, Samantha LaRue said:

It won't affect the actual editing in this case, but it does present a probably when sharing your images online. Images in AdobeRGB can appear green/grey when viewed online. And it would really suck to do all the hard work on this, just to find out the profile was wrong and that you would have to start over etc. 

I'm really puzzled why it saved as AdobeRGB though! I don't have a Mac so I don't know what window that shortcut opens. Can you take a screenshot of that? I just want to make sure we aren't overlooking anything.
 

Cmd+shift+S is just the "Save as" dialog box.  @Foques, make sure the "Embed Color Profile" checkbox at the bottom of that screen is always checked!

[Foques]

I think I know why.

I had to do the prior crops while traveling, and using work computer.

 

The last upload I did from my own processing station.  I wonder if the other software I used did not code the file right.

[Foques]

2 hours ago, Samantha LaRue said:

It won't affect the actual editing in this case, but it does present a probably when sharing your images online. Images in AdobeRGB can appear green/grey when viewed online. And it would really suck to do all the hard work on this, just to find out the profile was wrong and that you would have to start over etc. 

I'm really puzzled why it saved as AdobeRGB though! I don't have a Mac so I don't know what window that shortcut opens. Can you take a screenshot of that? I just want to make sure we aren't overlooking anything.
 

thank you very much for explaining the concern. I really appreciate it.

 

I just remoted into my work workstation (oh look, a pun!), and sure enough the one I used to crop things did use Adobe RGB.

[Samantha LaRue]

3 hours ago, Foques said:

I think I know why.

I had to do the prior crops while traveling, and using work computer.

 

The last upload I did from my own processing station.  I wonder if the other software I used did not code the file right.

Yep, that would make a difference. It's the raw processor (ACR) that sets the color space. So if your work computer was not set to sRGB that would change how it processes your file.