Thread: Tiny Dancer (with step-by-step PP)

Amy, here you go:

The original images that you saw on facebook:




When I was doing this process on the above images, I don't either one took more than 5 minutes. The second probably three. The first few steps are standard PP for me and I knew exactly which texture I wanted to use. I just experimented with the blending modes and strengths a bit until I liked what I saw.

sooc:


cropped and defogged:


enhanced eyes, softened skin:


burned edges:


texture image:


overlay blending mode at 68%


For the two different images, this is where the differences happened.

masked out the girl


did my standard warm b&w action and then backed off about 20%


the other picture - didn't mask - just lassoed the girl, feathered the selection and did a gaussian blur at 12 px.

That texture image is gorgeous, I love it. Where did you find it? Thank you for posting this. Couple questions:

Does the warm b&w action get applied to the texture layer while it's still separate, or did you merge the texture & photo first?

When you did the gaussian blur was it on the background (inverted from the lassoed girl selection)?

These are gorgeous.

my b&w action creates new layers completely, so it was right on top of the other two layers.

As for the blur - I lassoed on the texture layer, feathered and blurred it. So I was actually blurring the texture which is over the girl. Like that you keep the color tone of the layer but not the distracting texture.

Ah, I see about the blur, thanks!!! So when your b&w action creates a new layer, does it duplicate the top layer and convert it, you mean?

It puts a gradiant map layer right over the other layers and then a curves layer on top of that.

That is amazing!
And those are some freakin adorable photos!

Very nice Esti!! Love the first one especially! I need to learn how to do that!

I used to make a lot of siggy graphics for people by request at other forums, and I always loved adding textures to photos. But I would love to see a tutorial on masking out the person from the texture.

Originally Posted by Amy_&_Eva

I used to make a lot of siggy graphics for people by request at other forums, and I always loved adding textures to photos. But I would love to see a tutorial on masking out the person from the texture.

This is a great one from Red Leaf http://www.redleafboutique.com/tutorials/

There is also one on youtube I will see if I can find it, all my bookmarks were lost when my computer crashed.
Red Leaf is exactly what I do though personally and they explain better than I could! HTH

Very cool Esti! Thanks for sharing your step by step pp. I had never thought of doing a blur over the subject with a texture! Sounds like it would work out great.