Advice on PP

jimmy83 · 11 Nov 2009

Got a couple of shots that I would like some advice as where to go with them, on how I can improve them etc.

Will try the clone stamp tool on the water shots, and I think I need to make the kitten photo lighter?

jitsng · 19 Nov 2009

On the kitties, I'd brighten and cross-process and do up the eyes.
Then crop the window and the right side a little.
and do up the mat.

Ok, I'll stop now. might get carried away

jimmy83 · 9 Jan 2010

jitsng said:
On the kitties, I'd brighten and cross-process and do up the eyes.
Then crop the window and the right side a little.
and do up the mat.

Ok, I'll stop now. might get carried away

Ok, cheers. I tried all but the eyes and mat. How would I go about changing those?

So far...

jimmy83 · 12 Jan 2010

Anyone got any views on the above?

snoop69 · 12 Jan 2010

jimmy83 said:
Anyone got any views on the above?

Not sure about your cat edit as it seems to have a peachy coloured tint to it.

Hows this for a quicky?

The water looks much better.

jimmy83 · 12 Jan 2010

Yeah looks good, what di you do? I just used. YouTube guide for cross-process-I kinda like it.

snoop69 · 12 Jan 2010

jimmy83 said:
Yeah looks good, what di you do? I just used. YouTube guide for cross-process-I kinda like it.

I cropped, cloned out what looks like a basket & used the dodge tool in Photoshop
to create the background.

jimmy83 · 12 Jan 2010

snoop69 said:
I cropped, cloned out what looks like a basket & used the dodge tool in Photoshop
to create the background.

Ah thats looks great, Ive viewed it on my iPhone earlier. Love the blank background.

Would you mind going into a bit more detail on how you done it?

snoop69 · 12 Jan 2010

Following advice from this forum I set the dodge tool to 'highlights' set it to
12% & then just go over the background

Make the tool smaller for the tricky areas of course but it works a treat.

jimmy83 · 12 Jan 2010

snoop69 said:
Following advice from this forum I set the dodge tool to 'highlights' set it to
12% & then just go over the background

Make the tool smaller for the tricky areas of course but it works a treat.

Not used the dodge tool, many thanks

Would like to add a little something to it still *** if poss, what I dont know

CJB64 · 16 Jan 2010

you could try and give the eyes a bit more punch by changing the hue/saturation?

jimmy83 · 16 Jan 2010

CJB64 said:
you could try and give the eyes a bit more punch by changing the hue/saturation?

Yes, thanks that was next on my list

What do you think about the water drop?

CJB64 · 16 Jan 2010

tbh, I would nt change anything to the water drop. I think it looks good as it is. You could try and add a vignette effect (elyptical) around the drop to see what that looks like:shrug: The first shot on this thread is the sort of thing I mean
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=194166

jimmy83 · 21 Jan 2010

CJB64 said:
you could try and give the eyes a bit more punch by changing the hue/saturation?

How do you just change the hue/saturation for the eyes, each time I change it then make shte other layers visible they then change hue/saturation