Hi, I shot a great Portrait of my grand father, i did lot of retouching, i.e removing wrinkles, etc and than i made skin smooth by creating a layer and and doing selecting gaussian blur. Result is great.
Now i want to convert into BW, but after having done all this retouching i find skin to have become too soft, so was confused should i simply convert my retouched portrait or i should start from scratch i.e convert coloured portrait in to B/W and than do all the retouching
Ya it is but i read this great tutorial on retouching that that i had to do.
I did extensive digital skin graftting and now i look like his grand father and he looks like my grandson.
It was really great fun to finally start getting hang of PS, only negative point is that you are tempted to over do it
Ya it is but i read this great tutorial on retouching that that i had to do.
I did extensive digital skin graftting and now i look like his grand father and he looks like my grandson.
It was really great fun to finally start getting hang of PS, only negative point is that you are tempted to over do it
Save it, do it the other way around, see which one ya like better! Best thing about digital, ya ain't confined to a one time processing!
Probably the only significant gain in converting to grayscale first is speed (handling 1/3 the amount of data). Weighed against the risk of liking the color better and having to do it over a third time, I would just keep working in color.
At any time you can check you progress by adding a (temporary) adjustment layer with the Channel Mixer in monochrome, or just switch your monitor to 256 grays, and see how it looks in grayscale, while continuing to work in color.
Now i want to convert into BW, but after having done all this retouching i find skin to have become too soft
You could try putting the original version on a new layer, add a Channel Mixer adjustment layer above them both, and then vary the opacity of the "original layer" to add back some of the detail that you retouched out.
Now i want to convert into BW, but after having done all this retouching i find skin to have become too soft
You could try putting the original version on a new layer, add a Channel Mixer adjustment layer above them both, and then vary the opacity of the "original layer" to add back some of the detail that you retouched out.
cool idea!
General, can you post "before", "during", and "after"? :P
Retouched Snap of My Grandfather Well just clear confusion of how come my grandfather doesnt look similar yours is because We are Sikh from India
Personally, I think the originals are better. It's tricky when you start removing frizzing hair; what you often end up with is an unnatural hair lines.
I usually do some softening around the crows feet for people, and remove transitory dermatological issues, but not their permanent features.
Now on photos of myself, I can't do enough repairs.
