re: Photography Corner- TOGs

Quoting *Hoe*Hatin*:“ Its not an actually school, something through the military its 2 short quick classes. Its actually for ... [snip!] ... as nice as the original image. I keep saying it, but I promise myself one day soon I am going to sit down with my photo shop.”

I have the community edition of noiseware, it's for free! You can download it here: http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx
It's the last download on the page. It really makes a difference to pictures!

Quoting Cheryle [TOG]:“ I have the community edition of noiseware, it's for free! You can download it here: http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx ... [snip!] ... it here: http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx It's the last download on the page. It really makes a difference to pictures!”

can you post how you use it again?? Like you said you add it to a layer and do stuff....help!

Quoting Cheryle [TOG]:“ I have the community edition of noiseware, it's for free! You can download it here: http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx ... [snip!] ... it here: http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx It's the last download on the page. It really makes a difference to pictures!”

ty!

Quoting *OU Baby* JM-OBAMF:“ can you post how you use it again?? Like you said you add it to a layer and do stuff....help!”

The free community edition download is a stand alone so you have to open your picture in the noisware program, let it run and then save the filtered version. Then you open both the original and the filtered version in photoshop. Bring the filtered version into the original picture as a layer and then you can erase the filtered hair and eyes or the skin on men (filtered hair, eyes and men's skin can tend to look too fake and smooth). Merge the two layers when you're happy with it.

I tend to do some basic editing on the original before I run it through noiseware. If I've done any cloning or filters, or working on skin, noiseware helps to blend everything a bit better. I just save the edited original as a copy and then run noiseware on the edited version. (I like to keep my sooc pictures just in case I ever want to do a different edit on them).

I just wanna say I give you ladies props for learning all this stuff! I am trying to wrap my head around scaling and the whole formulas like reproduction depth times cropped with divided by cropped depth geeeezzzzz

Quoting *Hoe*Hatin*:“ I just wanna say I give you ladies props for learning all this stuff! I am trying to wrap my head around ... [snip!] ... my head around scaling and the whole formulas like reproduction depth times cropped with divided by cropped depth geeeezzzzz”

  what is that? I just give the size in that I want to crop to and then crop it so it's how I like it. I never realized that there was a formula for cropping!

Quoting Cheryle [TOG]:“   what is that? I just give the size in that I want to crop to and then crop it so it's how I like it. I never realized that there was a formula for cropping!”

i have a question   how do you make the eyes in your pictures look so great?

Quoting .COURTNEY.:“ i have a question   how do you make the eyes in your pictures look so great?”

First of all, thank you for the compliment!  

I edit my pictures in photoshop. For the eyes, I will make a duplicate layer of the picture. Then go to Image, Adjustments, Curves and raise the curve up a bit in the middle which lightens up the whole picture (but I'm only interested in the eyes while doing this). Afterwards I add a bit more contrast and sometimes I add teen tiny bit of saturation. Then I do an unsharp mask at amount 100, radius 1, and threshold 0 (if that makes the eyes too sharp, reduce the amount to 50). Then I will mask that whole layer and use a soft brush to only reveal the irises and pupils of the eyes. If I want a bit more shine to the eyes, I'll duplicate that eyes layer and change the mode on the second layer to overlay or soft light. Then I adjust the opacities on both the eye layers until I'm happy with the look and then merge all the layers together to one picture again. It goes super fast once you've done it a couple of times.

Quoting Cheryle [TOG]:“ First of all, thank you for the compliment!   I edit my pictures in photoshop. For the eyes, I will ... [snip!] ... the look and then merge all the layers together to one picture again. It goes super fast once you've done it a couple of times.”

you're welcome   that sounds really complicated but i'm going to try. thank you  

Quoting .COURTNEY.:“ you're welcome   that sounds really complicated but i'm going to try. thank you  ”

It's really not complicated at all. It took way longer to type out than it does to do it! lol

Quoting .COURTNEY.:“ i have a question   how do you make the eyes in your pictures look so great?”

Good question!

But i know i got lost after adding contrast, saturation, unsharp mask. I could handle the first and last part tho. 

Quoting Cheryle [TOG]:“ It's really not complicated at all. It took way longer to type out than it does to do it! lol”

i tried doing the eye thing, but i have paint shop pro, so i tried it on there instead of photoshop, and this is what i came out with :


his eyes are a crazy color, but i thought it turned out neat looking  

Quoting .COURTNEY.:“ i tried doing the eye thing, but i have paint shop pro, so i tried it on there instead of photoshop, ... [snip!] ... of photoshop, and this is what i came out with : his eyes are a crazy color, but i thought it turned out neat looking  ”

Oh Wow, that is still awesome!!

Quoting *AbitOfJazz*:“ Oh Wow, that is still awesome!!”

thanks   i was excited to go outside and take pictures. i can never get good ones inside  

Quoting .COURTNEY.:“ thanks   i was excited to go outside and take pictures. i can never get good ones inside  ”

Is it cause the weather? Because that's my issue here too. Can't wait for Spring!