This is my wife’s old school friend and her husband. My wife and I have been asked to shoot a wedding next year and so this photoshopping was inspired by that. I softened skin (maybe a little too much?), brightened eyes and teeth and black and whited the photo, topping it off with a slight brown/bronzish tint. Also, I did not sharpen with my normal process, but tried something a little different. Please note this picture does not do either before or after justice. Click for larger version of after picture.
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- Duplicate background layer and run high-pass filter with a radius of 10 pixels. Set new layer to hard light blend mode and drop the opacity down to somewhere around 20% or 30%. I just eyeballed it.
- Ran the Coffeeshop powder room action to soften the woman’s skin, define man/woman’s eyes, whiten man/woman’s teeth (slight).
- Made a copy of soften skin layer, blacked the mask, and then softened man’s skin. I then dropped opacity of the new layer quite a bit. I only wanted a slight softening on his skin.
- Used Black and White adjustment layer. I was going to use the tint feature, but I wasn’t getting what I wanted, so instead I….
- Created a new layer. Filled it with #94715c and then dropped opacity to 34%. I wanted only a slight tint.
- Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer with eyeballs selected to brighten them slightly
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