Jess

Matt Stratton | Dec 5, 2005 min read

Jess
Originally uploaded by mugsy1274.

Continuing the theme of “playing with Photoshop”, here’s one I did of my friend Jess.

The original photo can be seen here.

This was just color correction – plus I over-saturated the hair and irises, and added magenta to the lips. Then I multipled a Gaussian blur over the image to get the soft glow, and tweaked the brightness/contrast.


Here you can see the difference between the source picture, and my changes:

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  <a title="photo sharing" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mugsy/70627905/"><img style="border:solid 2px #000000;" src="https://static.flickr.com/20/70627905_90230a21d9_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /> <span style="font-size:.9em;margin-top:0;"> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mugsy/70627905/">Jess</a><br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/mugsy/">mugsy1274</a>. </span>
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  This one is mostly more experimenting with layer masks &#8211; using various hue/saturation adjustment layers. Plus the good ol&#8217; <a href="https://www.dooce.com/archives/photos/01_31_2003.html">Dooce Effect</a>.
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  Original photo <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/divajess/59820544/">here</a>.
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