How did I do?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:47:52 GMT, "bob"
scribbled:

Hi,
I’m a complete newbie at PhotoShop. I’m using 6.01
I created a photo that I think looks fairly good, but there’s something wrong, I just can’t put my finger on it.
It’s a .jpg and you can view it here: www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg Any suggestions to cleaning it up would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Saturation levels are off, you’re darker than you should be, you’re also blurrier.

bob wrote:

Hi,
I’m a complete newbie at PhotoShop. I’m using 6.01
I created a photo that I think looks fairly good, but there’s something wrong, I just can’t put my finger on it.
It’s a .jpg and you can view it here:
www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg Any suggestions to cleaning it up would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Not bad. Use curves to bump the contrast on your face to match the King’s, and maybe use the burn tool to take the highlight down a notch, sharpen just a little, and it should be even better.

I did a birthday card like that for the prez of my company, and stuck his head on a similar picture. You should have seen his face when he got a look at it – it was a company party and everyone in the room fell silent, and … just about got myself fired 🙂
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

in article ccfSb.33237$, bob at
wrote on 1/29/04 1:47 PM:

www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg

His face is in focus, yours is not. Your face is dark, his is not.

Your wrist is blurry.

The light is not falling on your face the same as his face.

in article ldgSb.19411$, Mike Russell at
wrote on 1/29/04 2:57 PM:

bob wrote:

Hi,
I’m a complete newbie at PhotoShop. I’m using 6.01
I created a photo that I think looks fairly good, but there’s something wrong, I just can’t put my finger on it.
It’s a .jpg and you can view it here:
www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg Any suggestions to cleaning it up would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Not bad. Use curves to bump the contrast on your face to match the King’s, and maybe use the burn tool to take the highlight down a notch, sharpen just a little, and it should be even better.

I did a birthday card like that for the prez of my company, and stuck his head on a similar picture. You should have seen his face when he got a look at it – it was a company party and everyone in the room fell silent, and … just about got myself fired 🙂

Fired why?

Combaticus wrote:

in article ldgSb.19411$, Mike
Russell at wrote on 1/29/04 2:57 PM:

bob wrote:

Hi,
I’m a complete newbie at PhotoShop. I’m using 6.01
I created a photo that I think looks fairly good, but there’s something wrong, I just can’t put my finger on it.
It’s a .jpg and you can view it here:
www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg Any suggestions to cleaning it up would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Not bad. Use curves to bump the contrast on your face to match the King’s, and maybe use the burn tool to take the highlight down a notch, sharpen just a little, and it should be even better.
I did a birthday card like that for the prez of my company, and stuck his head on a similar picture. You should have seen his face when he got a look at it – it was a company party and everyone in the room fell silent, and … just about got myself fired 🙂

Fired why?

Bad hair day. The president didn’t like parties in the first place, and having his face stuck on Nixon’s body shaking hands with Elvis for all to see just caught him off guard.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.
I made some changes. It looks a little better, but…

I’m so new at PhotoShop that I’m just trying stuff but don’t really know what it’s doing.
If it looks better, then I keep it. If not, I click ‘undo’

Here’s the latest version with changes that Mike Russell suggested: www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg

ps If you have critique for it, please also include ways to fix it. Just saying "it’s blurry" without informing me of how to make it unblurry doesn’t help this new-comer. Thank you.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:40:15 GMT, "bob" wrote:

Here’s the latest version with changes that Mike Russell suggested: www.infantino.net/elvisandme.jpg

better but your face still lacks contrast, especially in comparison to the rest of the photo

ps If you have critique for it, please also include ways to fix it. Just saying "it’s blurry" without informing me of how to make it unblurry doesn’t

filters-unsharp mask.

play around with that.

for contrast, try Levels. (its easier than curves)