High School Formal

[hotspur (Chris)]

After a long year of year 12,my son and his friends had their formal on Thursday night,they have all work so very hard especially the last six months.

So it was good to see them relaxing and enjoying this night,I took a few images and did some PP with these.It does not help-that I forgot to have RAW switched on.So only JPEGs to play with.

I did these in CS 5,I think the DPP that comes with Canon cameras is very good,and some how I seem to end up with really good results with it,so might give these a go in it.

Apparently,there is a 'plug in' for CS5 that tidies up the noise and in the process helps with skin tones,but I forgot what its called or where to get it.

Any advice or pointers would be of great help,I am not very good at PP.

Thanks Chris

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Great images and a sneaky way to keep an eye on them be their personal photographer

[Dennis]

Hi Chris

A great set of photos – some nice poses and if you tone down some of the hot spots from the flash, they would really pop!

I had a quick play with the 1st photo using a plug in for portraits – I’m too lazy to learn the stuff pixel by pixel like H does!

Cheers

Dennis

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks Warren and Dennis.

Dennis-the adjust you did looks great!,was that a plug in you got for your CS4?

If you have the name and where you got it from-that would good to find out.

I did find some Raw files from some of the nights' images.

Cheers Chris

[Dennis]

Hi Chris

The Plug-Ins for Photoshop (I have CS5) are from onOne Software which I purchased at a discount some time ago. Generally these plug-ins are quite expensive for a hobby photographer but when these companies have a heavily discounted promotion running, sometimes as much as 50% off, they become more affordable, especially when the Au$ is strong against the US$.

I purchased the onOne Suite for the Fractals application to play around with up-sizing photos and there were 3 or 4 other plug ins included, one of which offered the portrait skin smoothing effect with the added frame.

The same effects can be obtained using standard Photoshop tools where the skin can be softened and made to glow by using skin smoothing techniques based on blur filters.

You could probably find an on line tutorial showing how this is done if you do a Google search using keywords such as Photoshop skin smoothing. You can then sharpen the eyes on a separate Layer as clear, sharp eyes really make a portrait pop.

Cheers

Dennis

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks Dennis.

I had a quick look at those-I see a free trail version so might give that a go.

I suspect this CS5 can do a great deal,perhaps a fair portion of what those plug in can do,just a matter of trying to learn how to use it.

I see images and they have a 'super smooth' look and feel to them,I am not sure what has been done to them.

Cheers Chris