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Mrvandal

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HiI wonder if someone can give me some advice. I took this loveley picture of my daughter on a grey background. I like the picture, but I want it on a white background, which I am trying to do Has you can see I have some some work with it, but more still needs to be done. As I work on it, it looks very superimposed on the white background.Any thoughts on how I can make this better or not so superimposed. I am using a free programme called paint.net, so just dipping my toe in to photo software. Thanks for your help.Brent

$Zoe part 4.webp
 
Ok, so I think I know why it looks so superimposed. I did a really rough edit to give you an idea where I would start from.

First - because of the pure white back ground, the the exposure of Zoe is too dark, she needs more pop. I selected her and adjusted the Exposure, Offset, and Gamma Correction untill I got where I thought she should be. I then went in and toned down the Magentas because they had blown out into her shirt. I then did a little Dodge on her eyes, because the whites were still too dark, some Dodge on the teeth because they looked really yellow, heal brush on her forehead to take that spot out, and then tuned down the yellows, as there was an unnatural yellow hue to her skin tone.

The whole area around her where you cut her out needs to be softened/blurred. There are a lot of jagged lines following where you cut her out. Zoom into her at are 200% and follow her outline and you will see what I mean. I think I would just use a stronger blur brush and smooth it out. It follows into the curls in her hair where the background is cut out as well, so where you see white and her outline it will need to be done. I didn't spend a lot of time on that, simply because it could take awhile.


After all that I did a little noise reduction, High Pass Sharpen, and Unsharp Mask. And I think it turned out ok, but it's still rough and could use more fine tuning. I hope it helps, maybe it will give you some ideas. Good Luck!

$Zoe part 4_Redoux.webp
 

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