Alright improve a photo of a friend sounds simple enough. Unfortunately it happend to be raining the day I took this so it was overcast, hair was wet, etc.
So I defiantly messed up this photo. I found this person in a group of 3 and by the 3rd picture I had decided that opening up my aperture a bit might be a good idea; unfortunately this was picture number 2….
Therefore, to begin this edit I had to brighten it up a bit so in the picture labeled 2 above you can see the difference between the original and my base for the touch up/edit process.
After tweaking a bit I was happy with the results. I had brightened things in the picture and you can see this in the picture numbered 3 above. Essentially I changed skin tone, eye bright/whiteness, teeth, and cloned oaver a little acne which was on her face that day. Then I thought why not take it to another level and go for “perfect” skin. So I started using the patch tool…
Patching over the skin defiantly made be feel a bit uncomfortable. And I kept going to a point, patching over moles, wrinkles, and some flushed areas. I’m pretty sure I could remove every freckle from her face if I wanted to…
Funny I view editing peoples faces as grossly more unethical than the Alan Detrich incident we read about. I mean he removed a pair of legs. Legs which technically could have been cropped out of the photo for a similar effect. Minus a team member I guess… I wonder what the result would have been if it was cited as a “photo illustration”…
Anyway not sure which picture I’m going to use probably the latter as I guess it’s more magazine/yearbook/portrait -esque.
Photoshop is a powerful tool
-I probably should have gone for the rain droplets but oh well-
