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Well, first thing I notice is that we did a really lousy job with the green in the tiara :) But, we also forgot our small points. The small points are the areas of highlight that are too small or sharp to paint over. These areas are usually the fingernails, the lips, the eyes, the teeth, and the hair. We can adjust the eyes, teeth, and fingernails by creating a new layer and blopping some white over the small points, then setting our layer to "Overlay." We might also have to adjust the opacity of the layer if the white stands out too much. The lips can be done the same way by creating a layer with some red paint.
Hair is really a trouble area when it's black. However, there is an answer. Most photographs have a blue tone layered over them, although you rarely, if ever, notice it (and it's not as prevalent in dimly lit photographs). By creating another Gradient Map of white to light blue to purple, we can simulate this tone. It might require a trip back to our skin layer to adjust the hue, but it gives the overall image a more balanced look. Make sure to drop the opacity of your blue level to around 30% or 40%, otherwise you'll end up with a very smurfy model. (If the hair is not black, you can easily create a gradient map just for the hair, but I do recommend throwing a blue layer on).
Page 7: Taking a look So now we've got our blue tint, we've got all of our areas masked and colored, and we're ready to submit, right? Wrong. Here's where we are now:
The first thing to notice is that all this colorizing has thrown our dark levels off. The image is much brighter than it was when we started. To fix that, we're going to add an Adjustment Layer for Levels. Like Masks, Adjustment Layers affect the appearance of layers, but don't change the content. That means that anything you do can be immediately undone without any loss to your original source material. By raising the dark levels, we get a much sharper and cleaner image, almost as clean as our original source:
It's good, but there's still one more thing we can do to it go make it better.
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