How could I improve this picture?

[zhoak]

The girl and the landscape are 2 diferent layers. I like the style I reached, but I want it looking professional, need some improvements.

 

[MitchStrp]

To improve this image, Personally, I would reshoot it and make them look real this photo looks like an oil pastel painting.. If that was what you were looking for then you got it but It doesnt look all that real.

 

[raaskohx10]

Don't do anything to it; it's simply perfect.

 

[SCraig]

Good job on compositing the two images, but I do not like the processing at all. Looks like some sort of overcooked HDR / oil paint / something texture to it.

 

[CA_]

Highlight radius' are too small, strength of highlights is too high, a bit over saturated.

Take down the highlight radius,
nudge down the strength of the highlights,
Take the saturation down a bit,
(I don't know what program you use, though)

Then use the mixing brush at 3% and soften the fabric a bit (little trick I do).

Those may or may not work, but those are the first things I'd try.

 

[cgipson1]

Good job on compositing the two images, but I do not like the processing at all. Looks like some sort of overcooked HDR / oil paint / something texture to it.

^This! Overprocessed!

 

[Parker219]

OP- I tried to take what everyone was saying and make an edit. I dont know how to get rid of the vignette, since it is already on your original pictures. I will post your original and my edit.

View attachment 35300

 

[480sparky]

.........., but I want it looking professional, need some improvements.

Lacking your definition of 'professional', any editing on our part would be an exercise in futility.

 

[runnah]

Step 1: Go to windows control panel
Step 2: Click "Add/Remove Programs"
Step 3: Uninstall any HDR software you have

 

[zhoak]

MitchStrp, cgipson1, runnah:

To improve this image, Personally, I would reshoot it and make them look real this photo looks like an oil pastel painting.. If that was what you were looking for then you got it but It doesnt look all that real.

For him and much of the comments I'm having about my "wrong" decission of make it saturated of HDR and looking not real and as a painting; I already said I like the style I reached. Maybe my taste is awfull and I have to give me shot or maybe i should have posted this in the HDR section, but change of the style is not a usefull answer for me. I like the photos that seems paintings. If i want to make a realistic photo obviously I can make it. It is needed the kind of corrections a teacher would say about the photo, inside the style the student hs decided. For example I hate impressionist paintings, but Is a student asks me to correct his painting I have to correct it in an objective way. (I say all this in friendly way, Im thankfull about your opinion, but I put it for the next ones not puting the same stuff)

CA_ and Parker219, thanks, I will try those suggestions. I personlly like saturation, but looking the examples there, I see maybe is good that i down it at least the yellow color.

 

[CA_]

MitchStrp, cgipson1, runnah:

To improve this image, Personally, I would reshoot it and make them look real this photo looks like an oil pastel painting.. If that was what you were looking for then you got it but It doesnt look all that real.

For him and much of the comments I'm having about my "wrong" decission of make it saturated of HDR and looking not real and as a painting; I already said I like the style I reached. Maybe my taste is awfull and I have to give me shot or maybe i should have posted this in the HDR section, but change of the style is not a usefull answer for me. I like the photos that seems paintings. If i want to make a realistic photo obviously I can make it. It is needed the kind of corrections a teacher would say about the photo, inside the style the student hs decided. For example I hate impressionist paintings, but Is a student asks me to correct his painting I have to correct it in an objective way. (I say all this in friendly way, Im thankfull about your opinion, but I put it for the next ones not puting the same stuff)

CA_ and Parker219, thanks, I will try those suggestions. I personlly like saturation, but looking the examples there, I see maybe is good that i down it at least the yellow color.

Hey Zhoak, how bout you send me the .PSD and I can take a crack at it, and if you like it, I can show you how I did it? I tend to like an illustrative look as well, so we may be on the same page. PM me if you're interested!

 

[JennEcho]

The girl and the landscape are 2 diferent layers. I like the style I reached, but I want it looking professional, need some improvements.

I like the image, but if you want to do something different with it, I have an idea of something you might try.

The background landscape you can alter the perspective just a tad so the mountain looks further away since the road in front of the lake already looks like it's further away, or you could make the girl a bit shorter/smaller so her eyes would be lower in comparison to the background mountain and it would appear that she is looking up at the mountain vs looking up at something that isn't in the actual image itself.

Just some ideas.

 

[zhoak]

The girl and the landscape are 2 diferent layers. I like the style I reached, but I want it looking professional, need some improvements.

I like the image, but if you want to do something different with it, I have an idea of something you might try.

The background landscape you can alter the perspective just a tad so the mountain looks further away since the road in front of the lake already looks like it's further away, or you could make the girl a bit shorter/smaller so her eyes would be lower in comparison to the background mountain and it would appear that she is looking up at the mountain vs looking up at something that isn't in the actual image itself.

Just some ideas.

XD actually i wanted that it seems the girl is watching the mountain but then if you say me this, it means i didnt reached it. Which tool would you use for change the perspective of the mountain? edit/perspective-deform? (i have photoshop in spanish so i dont know if im translating properly)

 

[JennEcho]

The girl and the landscape are 2 diferent layers. I like the style I reached, but I want it looking professional, need some improvements.

I like the image, but if you want to do something different with it, I have an idea of something you might try.

The background landscape you can alter the perspective just a tad so the mountain looks further away since the road in front of the lake already looks like it's further away, or you could make the girl a bit shorter/smaller so her eyes would be lower in comparison to the background mountain and it would appear that she is looking up at the mountain vs looking up at something that isn't in the actual image itself.

Just some ideas.

XD actually i wanted that it seems the girl is watching the mountain but then if you say me this, it means i didnt reached it. Which tool would you use for change the perspective of the mountain? edit/perspective-deform? (i have photoshop in spanish so i dont know if im translating properly)

In my Photoshop it's under the edit menu > Transform > Perspective tool or Skew tool or Distort tool

Select the layer, for example, of the woman. She would be the top layer. When that layer is selected, click the perspective tool, and you will be able to move the corners of the selection which will alter how the woman is placed. There is also the Skew and Distort tool. Try all of them to see if you can adjust the woman so that her eyes align with the mountain. Right now her eyes are looking above and to the left of the mountain. You might need to resize her smaller and move her down and to the right a little bit. OR, you might want to play with the mountain layer and make it bigger and move the mountain to the left and up some. To see if you are getting it right, take a piece of paper and lay it over her eyes from the outside corner to her pupil and the edge of the paper should be able to show you where the mountain should be. Does that make sense?

Play with it and the 2 layers until you are happy with how her eyes are looking at what you intend for them to look at. Hope that helped, some.