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Subject: that washed out look? head shot

delboyo opened this issue on Nov 14, 2003 · 9 posts
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delboyo ( ) posted Fri, 14 November 2003 at 1:17 PM · edited Mon, 03 February 2025 at 5:45 AM

i have taken some head shots of my daughter and would like to try that white washed out look that you see in some of the magazines where the eyes, eyebrows, some of the nose, and lips are the prominent features i have tried various things but with little success. thanks in advance

bonestructure ( ) posted Sat, 15 November 2003 at 1:29 PM

Okay, here's a way to cheat. Create a canvas the same size as your image. Give it a white background. Copy and paste two copies of your image on top of it. You'll have three layers. Make the top layer invisible for the moment. activate the layer that shows. Go to layer style/blending options and adjust the opacity until you get it as washed out looking as you like. Make your top layer visible again, select and delete everything you don't want to have the saturation you want (eyes, lips, etc.) then adjust the transparency layer on that one until it looks right to you.

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retrocity ( ) posted Sat, 15 November 2003 at 6:01 PM

can you post an example?

bonestructure ( ) posted Sat, 15 November 2003 at 8:13 PM

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well, I don't use it very often, but this is something like

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ChuckEvans ( ) posted Sat, 15 November 2003 at 8:23 PM

file_83946.jpg

Not sure what "washed out" means...could mean a lot of different things, like the one I did of my wife.

In this one, I made sure the photo was over exposed (but not too much) and then worked on contrast and saturation till I got what I wanted. If you have a photo done with a "normal" exposure, you should be able to do something similar.

Of course, as I said, not sure what you meant by washed out.

ChuckEvans ( ) posted Sat, 15 November 2003 at 8:25 PM

One other thought...if I may be so bold...post one of the images and let someone "tinker" with it and then if you like what you have seen, then they can tell you how they did it. Then you can use that info and "tinker" with it just the way you like.

retrocity ( ) posted Sat, 15 November 2003 at 9:40 PM

great idea
;)
retrocity

delboyo ( ) posted Sun, 16 November 2003 at 2:04 AM

thanks for your replys i will give them a try, derek

Serious ( ) posted Sun, 23 November 2003 at 1:34 AM

I guess I whould do it this way: If you have already an image you want to "confirm", make a new layer, apply white gradient and use on it filter-blur-motion_blur. Then merge down layers with satisfactionable opacity :-)

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