how do i make a picture "pop"..help needed..

[flashgordio]

Here is my take, although not really any different than what others have done already.

really good... how did you do it...

 

[Josh66]

I don't see anything wring with his post :lmao:

:er:

 

[flashgordio]

i appreciate all the efforts made...good and bad...we are all learning all the time. thanks.
terry.

 

[flashgordio]

I don't see anything wring with his post :lmao:

:er:

am i missing something????

 

[Dominantly]

Yeah, but it's late there... so don't worry.

 

[ACrossley]

Dominantly -
Really - kudos on your edit. Good work! Could you post the break down of the layers for us all to see? I know the tutorial can be found in your sig, but it is very helpful to see the sooc and edited image as done here. I know people have posted visual editing steps in other forums ... can it be done here? If it's too much trouble don' worry!
THANKS!

 

[flashgordio]

its only 2.30 in morning...im off to bed..yous can take the micky out of me when im gone ...again thank for your help..

 

[fokker]

Sorry not tryin to be an ass, just thought it was a bit funny is all :hug:: good luck getting all your photos edited.

 

[Dominantly]

Dominantly -
Really - kudos on your edit. Good work! Could you post the break down of the layers for us all to see? I know the tutorial can be found in your sig, but it is very helpful to see the sooc and edited image as done here. I know people have posted visual editing steps in other forums ... can it be done here? If it's too much trouble don' worry!
THANKS!

Thanks.
I posted the .psd file which has the breakdown inside it. So anyone interested in seeing that can download it and open it in PS.

The photo was duplicatedtwice, I pulled the kids from the background in that top layer. So I had one of just the kids, and then two of the kids with the background there.
Then I duplicated the kids layer so I now had two kids only layers. I hit the top one with a high pass filter of around 67pixels. When it opened I selected "soft light".
That added the color contrast. I did some minor tweaks to the levels and hue/saturation on the second layer down.
Then I hit flattened it and hit it with denoise (from Topaz).

 

[porktaco]

Here you go.

It still is a little blown out, but I did my best.

 

[NateWagner]

oh wow... what did you do there?

 

[ACrossley]

Oh, I'm laughing so hard ... that is wrong on so many levels! But so funny!

 

[flashgordio]

im guessing Topaz is another editing package?
is denoising similar to the surface blurr on pse7?

 

[flashgordio]

still not quite there yet... will have to seek out some more tutorials...how can i remove the noise on face using pse7??

 

[JeffieLove]

Here you go.

It still is a little blown out, but I did my best.

ummmm, you should be punched in your face.