I see you!

LaFoto · Nov 27, 2007

It was fun to create this one:

Don't ask me "how". The steps through PS were too random for me to even remember...

I now see that something went quite wrong on her forehead ... it is a greyish green :shock: !

Antarctican · Nov 27, 2007

The eyes look great, but as you say, the forehead (and around her mouth) are an odd colour.

zendianah · Nov 27, 2007

I think its oddly cool. Nice work Corinna!

LaFoto · Nov 27, 2007

It started to look this cartoonish when I used the Channel Mixer, took out all red and only played with the blues and greens (I later upped saturation on her lips and returned the hair to a warmer colour, but I did that separately). It is only now in this tiny version that I find the former "cool" tones so "dirty" ... hmph. That had not been the plan.

Though I must admit the forehead also looks greyish-green in the larger version ... oh well. But after a while of playing around with this photo, I went for the "wrong" colours (just did not plan to "go dirty" with it...).

The eyes had become a little blue in the process, I repainted the whites to white later.

skieur · Nov 28, 2007

Well, I must say you have a unique approach to contrast...red hair with green skin,

but on the other hand it certainly gives the image a very surrealistic almost horror movie look. It certainly has visual impact.

skieur

LaFoto · Nov 28, 2007

If there is a "horror movie effect" that you see, then you and I see the same, for when I had reached THAT point, I thought by myself, "Whoa! This is sooo 'coooool' now, it FREEZES you!"

If only I had memorized my steps on the way from the original photo to here so I'd be able to purposefully REPEAT the process :roll: --- alas! It was just playing around.

LaFoto · Dec 7, 2007

Somehow I feel tempted to look for another Sabine-portrait in which she gives me "the stare" and try to re-create the effect, this time memorizing what all I did to get from a very normal photo to these "funny" colours!

Becky · Dec 7, 2007

Great look and fantastic eyes! The slightly off colour bits didn't register too much until I looked closer after reading the comments, very cool Corinna!

Alex_B · Dec 7, 2007

you could easily reduce the green .... but being LaFoto you would not want to

Lensmeister · Dec 7, 2007

Haunting image ...... eyes are amazing ..... great as always Corinna.

Roger · Dec 8, 2007

heh heh the first thing that struck me with this was the 'green' tinge and I love the image. It does have a surreal edge and the tight framing works well.

LaFoto · Dec 8, 2007

The original photo is not as tightly framed, you even see some background behind her face (in the upper left corner) ... but when the play with levels, and Channel Mixer, and selective saturation and what all I did (and forgot about :roll: ) had reached this point, I felt quite strongly that there must not be any background any longer, it was only "in the way", not helping at all. So I cropped the pic tighter.

Odysseus · Dec 8, 2007

I very much like the mistery in the portrait.....

Alex_B · Dec 8, 2007

BTW, I think it is really a nice image. and it is not the colour green which causes the problem, but that it comes in patches with quite pronounced borders.

jstuedle · Dec 8, 2007

I like it, a lot. To explain it to me I would have thought not, but seeing it, yes. The image has a unique artsy look that I would never have thought to do. A true one of a kind, real art.