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BrownT's Sepia Ollie
BrownT's Sepia Ollie
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Date Uploaded: Oct 13, 2005

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 I love PS!! And I love PS'ing other peoples pictures. Especially super cute ones like this! :-)
Brownt's original:


I'll try to remember the process for this best I can...(I'm the worst at remembering how I did this stuff)

other than cropping and cloning out some minor things here's what I did:
1)created a duplicate layer and added a layer mask (KevingRiggs explains this process very well in this thread:
//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=287883 But instead of just lightening the face I did this to the whole image to brighten it up without losing any detail. Merged layers.
2)Duplicate layer. Magnified the image to 200% and dodged the iris' and whites of the eyes at 4% set on hightlights. Then burned the pupil and around the edge of the iris' at 4% set on shadows. Burned the eyelashes a little also. Merged layers.
3)I then used Pedros Muted action on a duplicate layer, which basically creates a channel mixer in monochrome set at 100% red, 66% green, 100% blue and I moved the constant to around 55%. Then dropped the opacity of that layer down to about 50% or so. Merged Layer
4)Then I greyscaled, changed to quadtoned with Ken Lees bronzed quadtoned which gave it the coloring. I also burned around the edges to create the vignetting. Changed mode from duotone back to RGB color.
5)Lastly I used an unsharp mask action to sharpen it up.

This is all approximate and I'm sure I did some levels and curves adjustments also. But I think that's the meat & potatos of it anyways.

Thanks for all the nice comments, but I just processed it. Little model Ollie had alot to do with the high "Cuteness" factor of it. :-)


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 05/04/2006 04:27:43 AM
Very Retro style. Good work!
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 05/03/2006 11:41:26 PM
This is great, not only the shot, but also the explanation. Thanks!
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 01/14/2006 03:55:57 PM
WOW!!!! Totally amazing what some editing can do!!! I love it!! I still have a ton to learn about Photoshop!!! It looks great!!
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 01/09/2006 10:26:52 PM
Great example of what Sepia can do to a photo. I really like the contrast on this as well. Nice job.
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 10/14/2005 04:14:17 PM
i absolutely love this picture. I agree with the other comments, i would have never guessed its from an original color photo. Please share with us how you did this.....i have a few pics of my daughter that i would love to change to this effect.
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 10/14/2005 09:58:01 AM
I can't believe it's the same picture. What program did you use and what process did you follow? The picture is absolutely fabilous!
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 10/13/2005 04:56:38 PM
I would not believe it is not a 50 years old picture :-) great work
(and thanks for linking the original)
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