{"id":1168,"date":"2009-05-22T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2009-05-21T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T03:36:33","slug":"rework-with-a-little-ziser-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rework-with-a-little-ziser-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Rework with a little Ziser Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mike<\/a><\/p>\n

Trust me, it is a whole lot easier if you get it right in camera the first time. A whole lot easier. Anyway, I didn’t. I didn’t get all that good a picture of this family, and it was bugging me. The first problem was that I didn’t have all four of them with a reasonable expression. You gotta love groups! The first thing I had to do was to put a left side and a right side together of two pictures. Lesson learned: Keep shooting until you get a picture with all people looking forward!<\/p>\n

The next thing I wanted was that burn and dodge effect. I tried a couple of things that didn’t work, then I remembered that I had seen a couple of things on David Zisers<\/a> blog. The first one I found was this<\/a>. This video post was specifically about dodge and burn. I could not quite make it work. Then I looked around a little more, and found this<\/a>. I had this one bookmarked to look at sometime. It is about pulling people out and putting them on a different background. I didn’t really need something so drastic, but I decided to pull them out so I could textureize the background that was flat beige. I then used the same technique for dodge and burn that he did in this post.<\/p>\n

I will briefly tell you, but it is better to just take a look at his video. First make a curves adjustment layer, and pull the right side way down to darken the image. Create a mask, then with a large soft brush swish through the faces to lighten them. Then use different size brushes to do touch ups. I think it worked.<\/p>\n

David has lots of information and many many video posts. It is worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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