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Of course I wanted to try out what I had seen straight away, because once implemented, something sticks in my memory better than just what I saw. Luckily I had a nice portrait of Anja, which I was able to use to try it out. And because neither of us are vain, I'll show you the original and the edited version. With a little more practice you can definitely do more. But I definitely wanted to preserve Anja's wonderful naturalness.
Suggestions for improvement? Bring it on...
EDIT: There were plenty of suggestions for improvement :) Thanks! At some point I finally understood what I had done wrong. Two things: firstly, I didn't show you what the image looks like after Photoshop editing (I've done that now, see image 2) and secondly, I had my personal "I use all the filters in Color Efex Pro4, after all, I paid for them" moment. So I created a new, "softer" version of the image - see image 4. So that I can see my mistake and the associated comments in context in the future, I'm leaving image 3 in the gallery.
Basically a really neat effect, but I find the result a bit too extreme. The jacket somehow looks like plastic (maybe it is? But it's not that noticeable in the original) and her face looks a bit overexposed and too blurred for my taste. I think the contrasts and colors are great, the picture now has more depth in my opinion. 🙂
Thank you for your comprehensive comments. It's obviously difficult to find the happy medium between too much and too little. I will keep practicing 🙂
The face was a little too bright for my taste. Fever dreams? 🙂
We both actually had the beginnings of the flu in our bodies… 😉
Thanks for your comment.
Your explanations make the result easy to understand. What I mean by that is: I often find myself watching a tutorial and then wanting to try out the effect. It was only afterwards that I realized that the picture didn't match the effect. And that's exactly what I find here: the image doesn't match the effect, for example the dark HG doesn't match the overexposed face.
Greetings Michael
Thank you for your comments and for protecting me right away 🙂 I didn't use any effect at all - so at least Mr. Hollywood and Kelby are innocent 😉
By the way, he is not from the Palatinate but rather from Hesse (Frankfurt area, more precisely Oftersheim)
Thanks for the tip. I started from his birthplace: Heidelberg 🙂
The truth probably lies somewhere in between.