Dear OSP,
I took this picture of the bride and groom getting ready to dance at my last wedding. I love her dress in this shot. There is something about this shot that i know can make it great however i don't think that i have the post processing skills to make it great. If some of the experienced pros here want to take a crack at editing this image and then posting and explaining how they did it that would be sweet. I think this should start a good conversation and it will be a good way for the experts to show us beginners a trick or two in PS that will help us a lot. Others feel free to post up as well.



Thanks guys.

love the expression on her face. I'm curious as well what others have to say/can do to it.

[quote name='John Crozier' date='January 15 2007, 11:36 AM' post='49312']
Dear OSP,
I took this picture of the bride and groom getting ready to dance at my last wedding. I love her dress in this shot. There is something about this shot that i know can make it great however i don't think that i have the post processing skills to make it great. If some of the experienced pros here want to take a crack at editing this image and then posting and explaining how they did it that would be sweet. I think this should start a good conversation and it will be a good way for the experts to show us beginners a trick or two in PS that will help us a lot. Others feel free to post up as well.



Thanks guys.

Hi John,

I'm still learning but I'll try. Is this the original image? If not, can you email the original to me?

Here's a quick shot at it

The wifey and I are on the way out the door (she's asking me what's taking so long), so I didn't play with it too much! His face needs to be lightened up still, but I was having trouble with it....

Quick vignette, blurred background, brightness/contrast adjustment...

-J

heres my go at it. hope i didnt ruin anything u had in mind.

I LOVE to play!!!

cropped, adj levels, adj contrast, ran noiseware, unsharp mask --


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If it's the dress you like (and the way she's looking back at it), then I say crop out the groom...I tried a more rectangular dimension, but it cuts out too much of the dress. Keep the original or course, but I think the cropped image makes a really good album image or marketing shot. I too increased the contrast and brightened it up with a curves adjustment layer (2 points on the curve, the left one pulled down, the right one pulled up...an S-curve). Then ran Noiseware. Also used a second curve layer with a mask to darken the background.

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Wow, Thanks guys. This is fun.

I really like Eadwines rendition because he really preserved the detail in the dress which i love. But you didnt write how you did it. I was thinking about cropping out the guy, that might work. I Think i might blur the background a bit as well. Keep posting, and if anyone else has an image they would like to throw up here please do. This is great learning.

Here's my quickie contri. Some croppage, vignetteing, blur, sharpening, couples facial, that's about it. Hope you like.

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Here's my best stab. I used Kubota's actions & bumped the curves a titch.

Ooh, I like Ricky Mia's the best (better than mine even, heehee).

Here's my take on it. The main areas (that I saw) to improve upon were that the groom's face was dark, the background was bright, and that the background was a bit "ordinary" in addition to being distracting. (That's not your fault, you can't change the venue!)

So, I put a vignette on a diagonal to keep focus on the couple. Then i did some levels adjustments on the groom's face to help draw a little bit of attention to him as well. Next, a levels adjustment on the bride's dress to bring out some contrast and show the detail. A little bit of gaussian blur on the background helped a touch, and then I warmed the shadows and midtones.

woops, sorry dude forgot to write about it.

basically dodging and burning around the dress. highlighting the faces, removing small blemishes on the face, alittle liquifying and slight tinge of sepia.

Ok,
So i am done with my editing on this pictures. It took me about 15 minutes to do right, but i learned a lot through the process. my process.
1)used the magnetic laso to circle the guys face then used levels to brighten it.
2)duplicated background and applied gausian blur to new layer.
3)used the eraser with a feather to erase the B&G from the new layer
4)applied a vignette to the new layer and flattened
5)used magnetic laso to select dress
6)use curves to bring out detail in dress and then use contrast/brightness to enhance details.
7)quick facial
8)noiseware

What do you guys think.


same shot but in sepia tone

I realize I"m a little late, but I wanted to play and see what you thought

you forgot to tell us what you did with it. looks nice.

tried to do a bit of an hdr look, didn't quite work with this image, but you get the feeling

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