Portraits of Daughter

[Lyncca]

I really like that! What all did you do to it? I need to get over my fear of PPing...or learn to do it correctly. LOL No, her hair doesn't really have a green tint to it.

Thanks Sandshots! I will try and get another one using that as the background and just move her away a little more to blur it better.

Thanks again everyone, this helps me so much.

De

Let's see if I can remember. This may not be exact, but it's kinda close to the process I use and I vary it as needed for different pictures.

1. Applied auto levels (sometimes I do this manually, depends on what I get from auto)
2. Applied the Porcelain Skin PS Action.
3. Paint back in the eyes at 100%, lips, nose and eyebrows at 50%.
4. Change the Porcelain skin layer as needed (I think I ended up around 35%).
5. Apply Facial Enhancements plugin and work on eyes as needed to brighten.
6. Flatten image.
7. Using paintbrush at 10% opacity, corrected makeup under her eyes.
8. Using paintbrush at 25% darkened her eyeliner around her eyes.
9. Duplicate image to another layer.
10. Change that layer to "Overlay".
11. Run highpass filter as needed. I used only 1 pixel on your image because its small, but the original would probably need 2-4 pixels. This just makes the whole image sharper.

That's about it...

 

[DeCall]

Let's see if I can remember. This may not be exact, but it's kinda close to the process I use and I vary it as needed for different pictures.

1. Applied auto levels (sometimes I do this manually, depends on what I get from auto)
2. Applied the Porcelain Skin PS Action.
3. Paint back in the eyes at 100%, lips, nose and eyebrows at 50%.
4. Change the Porcelain skin layer as needed (I think I ended up around 35%).
5. Apply Facial Enhancements plugin and work on eyes as needed to brighten.
6. Flatten image.
7. Using paintbrush at 10% opacity, corrected makeup under her eyes.
8. Using paintbrush at 25% darkened her eyeliner around her eyes.
9. Duplicate image to another layer.
10. Change that layer to "Overlay".
11. Run highpass filter as needed. I used only 1 pixel on your image because its small, but the original would probably need 2-4 pixels. This just makes the whole image sharper.

That's about it...

Thanks so much for sharing your process with me, however most of it is foreign because I use PSP X2. :blushing: I'm assuming this was done in Photoshop? I'm going to pick it apart and see how much of it I can do in X2. I showed your version to my daughter and she loved it.