One of my first pictures with the new Nikon, using the regular zoom lens that comes with the kit.
Steps:
- Cropped, selected area to remain in red and feathered very slightly (2px), promoted selection to new layer.
- Worked on original layer (adjusted contrast, cloned out small light/dark spots on the skin and background).
- split to RGB.
- Converted original to b/w using channel mixer.
- Copied red channel (from RGB split) and pasted in as a new layer over the original. Erased eyes in second layer, blended at soft light with background, and merged the two layers (not the top one containing the mapleleaf and flag).
- Made a copy of background (b/w) layer and applied a soft focus filter. Blended with background at about 80%, erased portions (eyes and lips) I didn't want soft.
- Merged all layers, resized, sharpened.
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Nice try - and a good high contrast picture to use. Looks to me that the greens and blues on desaturation removed some of the hues that make the red look real. This looks like a black and white picture with a pure red icon drawn on it - and you very seldom find a pure red anywhere - except in some roses.
I would like to see this photo with her lips and maybe eyes still colored as well as the maple leaf and earring. I also wish the hair wasn't blocking the earring. The wisp of hair between the leaf and earring is perfect by itself.
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