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One of the first things I noticed about this image when I pulled it into Lightroom was that the hand and flower weren't in the ideal position vertically on her belly. When I was originally taking the shot, I told my subject to just let her her arm hang fairly loosely, which put her hand (and the flower) in a much lower position. I thought it would look better in the final shot, but it turns out that I was wrong.
To move the hand & flower higher up on my subject's belly and into a more visually appealing location, here's the procedure that I used:
- Duplicate the background layer
- Drop the opacity of this new layer down to around 20%
- Use the Move tool in conjunction with Free Transform to reposition the hand/flower in the new location
- Mask out everything but the hand/flower
- Go back to the background layer and clone out the original hand/flower
To see the before & after, just move your mouse pointer over the image for a few seconds until it changes. Then you can switch them back and forth as much as you like.
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3 comments:
Beautiful as always! I would like to know a little bit more about how you make the background snap to white? (before the gradient) I always find this very time consuming.
Beautiful! Flower repositioning was a good decision. Looks much better.
@Tiffany: I actually didn't alter the background before applying the gradient....I simply dropped the gradient on top of what was there and masked out my subject. However, making a white background snap to pure white is a good topic for a future blog post. I'll get to working on it.
@LIFE: Glad you agree-- thanks for your comment.
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