I love kids in dress up clothes! Poster Edges??

nkmaurer · Dec 17, 2007

I have this images and was wanting to do something more creative with it. Heard about people using poster edges, so I tried it. Did not like the black specks that it left on her skin so I erased the skin areas and the background. I know it is personal preference but is this to much? The hair??

Feel free to mess around with the image, just let me know what you did!

Before

After

slizerama · Dec 17, 2007

I'm lovin' the original, it's so soft and babyish, but the poster is just really hard and fake looking, you know? The original is lovely though!

Sweetsomedays · Dec 17, 2007

I don't get why you want to change it either. I think it's adorable and just lovely. Only thing I see wrong is a slight magenta cast to the whole image. Does anyone else see it or do I need to calibrate again?

nkmaurer · Dec 17, 2007

I agree......thanks for the feedback

About the magenta cast, it could be my computer....due for a calibration!

emogirl · Dec 17, 2007

cute shot...horrible thing to do to a baby..the pp, i mean...
yes, there is a magenta cast, but it is reflected light off her tutu..perfectly acceptable!

cindyg2024 · Dec 18, 2007

Definitely keep and go with the original. I don't like the poster edge at all on this photo.

dpolston · Dec 18, 2007

On the selective color: I overlayed the b&w onto the color one and just erased the parts I wanted in color. (but I did it quick so I should have done that in reverse because I then had to take a 3rd color layer and turn it b&w for the bottom layer and reduce the color (the middle layer) to around 50% opacity)

Just a couple quick edits. I just copied the image into another layer and made it b&w. Then I took the saturation opacity down to around 50% (you can do either layer) ant then I added a vignette and grain.

byt - this only took me about 5 minutes for both photos. Take some time with it. This is just an example.