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Pic Anonymous
I love this pic, do you?
Any ideas for improvement?
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>> Anonymous
uhh ideas for improvement...again without uhhh...everything? dont turn awesome up to 11, thats too high. turn it up to 1 or so. (im saying you shooped it way too much.)
>> Anonymous
>>77181
seconded.
>> Anonymous
The whole point of it is it's supposed to be vivid!
>> Anonymous !9cpK4ziEUQ
i ahve threes>>77182
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77187
Posting agreement in a unanimous-agreement thread.

>>77186
Overdid it. There's vivid, and then there's bright-ass yellow face with no highlight not-blown-out.

Good 'shops are *subtle*.
>> Anonymous
Hmm... Point about the yellowness of the face taken on board. But I like the fact that awesomeness is at 11.
>> Anonymous
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Prefer or no?

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>> iProd !8x7lXo9zIQ
>>77194
That's even worse...
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>77194
Again with the blown-out highlights, only worse. Much worse. It buuuuuuuurns.
>> Anonymous
>>77180
>>77194

Post the original so we can see what you're doing wrong.
>> Anonymous
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There's just no pleasing you...
I rather like this version, more than the original. So at least you guys have been useful in one respect.

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>> Anonymous
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That's the original original.

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>> Anonymous
Their is no saving this image if you've over-exposed that much.

Always, if you must screw up, under-expose. Or just expose right.
>> Anonymous
I know, I know. This is just a pic from a shoot long ago, I didn't take it for this purpose.
>> Anonymous
I'd suggest starting over with your shoops. Everything you've done so far has been way too washed out.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77203
She's pretty cute.

Needs more light on the face and/or less light on the background.
>> Anonymous
If you're feeling curious, check out my DArt.
www.santhenar.deviantart.com
I know, I know. Shameless me.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77209
Yeah, this is pretty much what one expects to find on a deviantart site.

I recommend that you delete photoshop. There are a few passably decent shots in there, but most of them are 'shopped all to hell. You might think that you're being creative and original but... go ahead and browse DeviantArt for a while. That's what everyone on DeviantArt is doing (you know, the ones who aren't using it to show off their drawings of themselves as giant anthropomorphic foxes).

It takes almost zero skill. "Oh look, I can make the colors all wacky! I AM TEH ARTISTE!!!1!ONE!" Get past this phase, as quickly as possible.
>> Anonymous
Photoshop is used to enhance pictures.
Take that picture there for example, it may not have been any good to begin with but in my opinion it looks a lot better after a little modification. I know photoshop can't make a crap picture good, but it can make a good picture better. You shouldn't treat it with disdain just because you can tell it's been used, or that it is popular.
Art is always a matter of taste anyway, some people will like it and others won't.

--(Do you know how difficult it is to find a girl who does actually have purple hair?)
>> Anonymous
Dear OP,
are you a troll?
>> Anonymous
>>77243I know photoshop can't make a crap picture good
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77243
>I know photoshop can't make a crap picture good, but it can make a good picture better.
True. But what you're doing here is making mediocre pictures crap.

>You shouldn't treat it with disdain just because you can tell it's been used, or that it is popular
Okay, lemme weave you a metaphor.

You know those pictures that parents hang on their fridges, of the little stick figure family and house, where the stick figures are as big as the house, and the sun is a bright yellow ball with individual rays coming off of it, and the sky stops halfway down because the kid hasn't really learned that the sky continues all the way down to the horizon? And all of the faces are orange because that's the closest crayon the kid could find to flesh-tone?

These 'shops are the equivalent of that sort of drawing. I'm not saying they're bad because they're popular, or because you can tell they're photoshopped, I'm saying they're bad because they're bad.

I'm a big proponent of photoshop. It's great for postprocessing to make a good photo great. I'm even fine with its use in such a way that it takes a photograph as a base and turns it into a non-photographic work of digital art. But what you've done here is you've futz with the colors and contrast and basically called it a day.

> Art is always a matter of taste anyway, some people will like it and others won't.
Agreed. But let this act as an indicator for you: The only people in the "like it" category for this sort of thing are teenage girls on MySpace and DeviantArt.

>Do you know how difficult it is to find a girl who does actually have purple hair?
Yes.

Pro tip: Find a blonde and convince her to dye her hair. Or a brunette and convince her to bleach and then dye her hair.
>> Anonymous
this pic sux lulz
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77391
See? Even this jackass realizes it.
>> Anonymous
She's pretty
..then came Photoshop D:
>> Anonymous
You're pretty but you shooop like a fag i fee so conflicted :(
>> Anonymous
>>77408
hay guys look it's photOH SHI-
>> Anonymous
>>77408
She isn't really that pretty.
>> Anonymous
MOAR CONTRAST PLZ
>> Anonymous
Well, you're enititled to your own opinion.
But in case you've not noticed- this was never an experiment in subtlety.
It's supposed to be bright and colourful, and for what it is, I think it looks good.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77540
Okay.

Just make sure to remember this in three years, when you look back and realize what a putz you were at this age.
>> Santhenar
Ouch.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77546
If it helps, I think that ac from any moment prior to the present was a complete and utter tool.

The only person more annoying to me than ac of the past is ac of the future. That guy's a jackass who totally doesn't realize how great my art is. Fucker.
>> Anonymous
>>77552
why do you hate air conditioners that much?
>> Anonymous
>>77552
please have my babies ac, i love you
>> Anonymous
you also have a crappy priest!
>> Santhenar
>>77552
I assume that 'ac' means 'Authors comment'?
But you're still not making any sense.
>> Anonymous
>>77572
/facepalm. he is ac. look at his name.
>> Anonymous
>>77572

ac is his tripcode. since he's a big ol' tripfag, like everyone else on /p/.
>> Santhenar
I don't know what a tripcode is or what his message means.
Please explain.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>77575
ac is his name, the tripcode is that series of random numbers after it. Did you read the faq? You choose a password so that people know it's actually you and not just someone using your name.
Also, ac is making fun of himself.
>> Santhenar
*Reads FAQ more carefully*
Thankyou.
>> Anonymous
>>77575
Oh, just fuck off will you?
>> Santhenar
>>77581
You know why I like /p/?
Because of all the love and support.
>>77581
Why ARE so many people on the internet such assholes? Probably inferiority complexes.
>> Anonymous
>>77587

This is 4chan. We're vicious, and mean, and we have nothing better to do most of the time. Most are also Anonymous, so there's something to hide behind.
>> Anonymous
>>77594
also /p/ is bitter from seeing the same kind of shit all the time.
>> Santhenar
>>77594
I'm trying not to succumb to that.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>77606

then you probably want to tripcode before the trolls get a hold of you.
>> Santhenar !pRPne708QI
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Let's see if this works...

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>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>77617

yup, it works. If you're going to photograph a portrait, use some natural light from a window or take her outside.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>77617
Much better, if a bit dark.
>> Santhenar !pRPne708QI
>>77619
Unfortunatley it was dark outside by then and the room had rather poor lighting.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77632
Tripod + longer exposure ftw.
>> Santhenar !pRPne708QI
Had I used a longer exposure then it would probably been blurred in a few places.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77639
There were more than three words in my post.
>> Santhenar !pRPne708QI
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>> Santhenar !pRPne708QI
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I love some ideas for improvement of this one.

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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>77642
This one's good.
>> Anonymous
>>77647
blue and green, take it out. and whats with the black on the left
>> Santhenar !pRPne708QI
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>>77648
Thanks, I like it myself.

>>77651
I just thought the black framed it better, and the blue and green eyes add some colour and draw attention.
There it is without either.

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>> Anonymous
blind people + cameras = drunk + driver