some of you may remember my last post with this gal...lost almost all of her pics when my computer crashed Anyhow, here's a couple from her reshoot! Enjoy!! Oh! and a before and after from one from her first shoot that i found on my laptop!

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Before


After

very nice photo shop work...well done. I love the one with her back lit by some tungsten light. Great look.

what did you do to make her eyes look so awesome??

i want to know this, too

+1

(woo hoo, first time I use that!)

Love that dress - and shot one seems to do everything the others don't quite.

Thank you all! Here's another one with steps! Oh and the eyes on that one was easy-peasy it was basically the same method that i showed here
There are a TON of ways to do things in PS, we all know that...but here's my simple way ENJOY!!



Orig BEFORE image





and after:




Now, when I shot this image, I purposely underexposed (as i do with most all my images) I knew what I wanted the final product to look like and had the image in my mind. I knew that i was going to play up the lighting and the richness of the colors...now... onto what i DID.



Step 1: Lightened up the image with a CURVES PULL (keyboard short cut: CTRL+L)




Step 2: The image itself is pretty yellow...so i COLOR BALANCED it.





Step 3: Cleaned up her undereye circles, theres a BUNCH of different methods, but i use the CLONE TOOL set to LIGHTEN with the opacity at 25%. another way is the PATCH tool, play and see which you like better





Step 4: Brightened the eyes. Dodged the whites, and sponge tooled on saturate to bring out color a bit.





Step 5: EYELASHES!!! look close on this one...set your tools to BURN with a VERY small brush (almost to a pinpoint) and go to town!!!






Step 6: Wanted a bit more softness and pop to it, so i ran the TRICOAST GLOW to it





Step 7: Now, it looks pretty good but details are details this step was her ARM...LIQUIFY BABY!!! She didn't need much, but lets' face it...we all need help





Step 8: Burned in the BG a bit to bring more attention to our lovely bride




and lastly and most could do w/o this step, but it's fun

Step 9: Big Sexy hair! bloat tool!!







and now we're done!
Questions? Comments?

Thanks so much for sharing your tricks! She is gorgeous, as is your work. In the first post, I think that last one ROCKS. She looks like a prettier version of Nicole Richie, no? It's the hair, I think. Great work!

Great photos and even GREATER photoshopping - you have a great eye for edits.

Nicely done-
Eric

copied and pasted. Your technique list is going in my "how to" folder until it becomes second nature. I LOVE the pp on these photos. GOOORGEOUS!

Did you find that the second shoot was better than the first? Was she more relaxed and not as worried about the dress?

wow, suzy great job! thanks for sharing your steps.

how many images to you give the full treatment to?!

WOW!! Thank you for the pp. Man, I need to learn more about photoshop......

wow professor suzy tearing it up as per usual!!!

you've got amazing talents and these bridal shoots are out of this world...thanks for the ps lesson looking fwd to learning more!

AMAZING JOB!!! You work magic...

thanks everyone!
JaNae, she was pretty relaxed the first g round so the 2nd wasn't too much different
Jillian, really all this takes me MAYBE about 2-3 mins? I select my fave 25 (about) and work em
again, really, all this stuff is easy peasy basic stuff in PS that i've just kinda figured out on my own through trial and error! Glad you guys found it helpful!!!

Great PS lesson! I love how you shoot a certain exposure so that you can achieve your goal image later in PS. You are a true artist!!

Sweetness Suzy, I love the first before & after you found on your laptop! I need to learn from you on the whole 'visualizing while shooting' thing, we should hang out sometime

THANK YOU! i love learning new things in PS.

wow i'm truly humbled by that erich...i'm just lil ol me, trying to help out the way people helped me out when i first started

kacyjo...girl i can't wait to see you again!

rebekah glad i could help out!!

great job Suzy!!

There's something missing between steps 6 and 7 (other than using the liquify tool on her arm). The whole photo looks brighter and her skin looks noticably different (no freckles and she's got a great glow). It looks awesome, but I'm trying to figure out what step is missing there!

you're right amy! sorry! i forgot to add that I used a plug in from here http://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx it' calle the portraiture plugin and it freaking rocks....

ahhhhaa! the truth comes out!!!

Suzy will be demoing her amazing use of this piece of software @ the Orlando PUG on April 10th

Ahhh! Thanks! Yeah, it definately looks awesome (well that and the rest of your PS work)

Great job!

uhhhhh....good thing i know about this???!!?!?!?

Suzy.
Smokin' Hot! Thanks for sharing your skills.
See ya soon.

You are a master with PS. Thanks so much for being so giving!

Um...hate to sound retarded, but what action pack includes the tricoast glow or is that something that you have named your own action? Thanks and I think this look is super yervant like and sweeeet!

wow! can't believe this got bumped up again! BWHAHHAHAA!!

kaitlyn, thank you hon! your wedding is coming up, you nervous yet?
lori! can't wait to see you again! i owe you a call!!! are you going to PUG?
kim!(blush) uhh..master i think is stretching it a bit...but thank you so much for the HUGE compliment!! just trying to give back!
Tawny, sorry to be so vague! The TriCoast Glow is by my boy Mike Fulton of TriCoast Photography
Here's what i was talking about! The PDF explaining it
and a flash video

Just out of curiousity... does he sell this action? i couldn't find any information at all on his website about the glow action...

thanks for replying though. Also, the links that you submitted didn't work for me. It may just be my computer though.

again...thanks for replying and great images!

Hey Tawny, no the links don't work... here's the links! I'm sorry! Yes, he does sell them and well worth the money!
http://www.findingcolor.com/pdf/Finding_Color-Action_Set.pdf
and
http://www.findingcolor.com/videos/actions..._Set-Flash.html

Awesome! Thanks so much! i have a big collection of actions and it looks as if it is only going to grow larger... LOL

Have a great one!

you're welcome tawny! glad i could help!!