Christmas Present for Mom...

wyldkard · Dec 6, 2005

I originally messed around with photoshopping people into a photo I took of the sky with sunlight streaks coming through the clouds. It looked great, so as much as my Mom loves pictures and photography, I thought it would be a nice gift idea to photoshop my Mom and Dad into the pic and get it framed in an 8x10 for them. I took several photos of them together, but when I finally sat down to do the work on the images, I got another idea. After a couple of hours of editing and a few hand cramps, this is what I came up with.

This is of course a resized image. The print turned out excellent and will make a nice addition to their collection of photographs.

Let me know what you think and any critiques are more than welcome. :wink:

woodsac · Dec 6, 2005

They look very happy, I'm sure they'll love it.

About the photo, the selective coloring looks good. There's one flower right below your Dad's ear that looks awkward. But, in a larger print, it might be fine. I'm just wondering how you did the b/w conversion? It looks very flat. Did you just desaturate? I think it could really benefit from a contrast boost in the b/w.

wyldkard · Dec 6, 2005

I just did the grayscale in Photoshop to achieve the black and white. Good idea on the contrast. I may mess with that and see what I can come up with.

Oh...and in the larger print the flower under his ear looks alright, I see what you mean in the smaller image.