PAD 21 1-20-13

Picture a Day #21, January 20th, 2013

Here is the 20th picture of the day in my Picture a day project! This photograph was taken a couple of days ago but I did the editing today--and that is what I am highlighting it here. I spent about 4.5 hours editing this image! I realize that seems like quite a bite of time and the photograph isn't very complicated. The original photo has solid background, I added texture as show here. But that really didn't take much time. Most of the time editing was spent on the model's skin. There isn't anything wrong with this model's skin but I spent quite a bit of time there as I was editing the image while zoomed in at 1000%! At 1000% the skin is pixelated and I edited only tiny patches of the skin by eliminating the contrast between light and shadow that is inherint in the texture of the skin. As the edit progresses, the skin begins to look more like that from a magazine ad. The technique here isn't exactly a secret but it does require quite a bit of time and, well patience.

Here comes the shameless plug: I include at least one photograph finished to this level with each of my portfolio development packages.

Have a great week everyone!!

--jay