Our music institute held their recital on Valentines day... I have a 4th and a 9th grader and because they split the group in 2 recitals by age (PreK- 5th and 6th-12th grade) we had to be there all the time... But at least I have a Flash of Red photo I'm quite happy with. Normally I do not post pictures of my children, but got special permission from my 9th grader for this one :)
What a beautiful picture and fantastic editing Ingrid. Can I ask you please which editing program you used to do this, it looks brilliant. @ingrid01 How lovely too that both your children play the piano. I had lessons when I was younger but failed grade 2 so stopped.
@stephanies My daughters love the piano. Every year since they started they do the Trinity exam (think that is what you meant). My 9yr old is going for grade 2 and the one on the photo (14) will do grade 3.
I use Adobe Photoshop for editing.
Hi @ingrid01 please can I ask you, when you have some time, to please explain how you did the colour selection in this picture? It is just perfect. I could never get the detail that you have, especially around her hair and the dress, it look like you shot it that way. I have photoshop elements 14, I think it has many of the same functions as the fuller adobe photoshop versions.
@stephanies I've got some time and will try to explain how I did the selective color. (As you know I like colour better, but my spelling control disagrees) Anyway, here we go:
1) Took color photo
2) Add Hue/saturation layer and put opacity to 0% so you have still color
3) With "quick selection" tool select what you want in color, then click right mouse button to say "feather". I believe I put that on 3 or 4. This feather option is very useful to me - it can make lines a lot softer or let you blend things in nicely.
4) I put hue/saturation layer back to what it should be (B&W) and then played with the "eraser tool". In my Photoshop version pressing the "x" (just the letter on the keyboard) makes the change for the eraser to erase the hue/saturation or bringing it back. I zoomed in and worked around her hair this way.
Hope this is helpful. Good luck and fun with editing!
That's brilliant @ingrid01 thank you so much. Would you mind if I copy what you have written over onto my colour selection picture please, if I put it anywhere else I know I will end up losing it! I will ofcourse say that you wrote it. Thanks again so much for writing that this up for me, I appreciate it!
@bkbinthecity thank you!
I use Adobe Photoshop for editing.
1) Took color photo
2) Add Hue/saturation layer and put opacity to 0% so you have still color
3) With "quick selection" tool select what you want in color, then click right mouse button to say "feather". I believe I put that on 3 or 4. This feather option is very useful to me - it can make lines a lot softer or let you blend things in nicely.
4) I put hue/saturation layer back to what it should be (B&W) and then played with the "eraser tool". In my Photoshop version pressing the "x" (just the letter on the keyboard) makes the change for the eraser to erase the hue/saturation or bringing it back. I zoomed in and worked around her hair this way.
Hope this is helpful. Good luck and fun with editing!