how to retouch the double chin.

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Permalink Reply by rob on October 20, 2010 at 4:57am

thankx i will try it. this problem with the glasses has thrown me and frustrated on how to over come it. in the past it has turned to a shot being left.

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Permalink Reply by CameraClicker on October 20, 2010 at 8:04am

I had some time so I took these this morning, not fancy and yes, I need a haircut...

This is with reading glasses in normal position:

Then I adjusted the glasses arms up about a finger width at the ears and tried to look at the same place again, I see I was a little off:

No retouching, these were converted from raw using the camera settings and resized using Canon's DPP. The lamps/softboxes were not moved. The shutter was released by wireless remote for both shots so I did not leave the chair between frames.

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Permalink Reply by rob on October 20, 2010 at 8:18am

thanx nice self shots now iknow what a professional/ teacher looks like.
ps may be a smile next time have a great day sir.
i will try this next time. favor can you try portrait profesional and see how you go doing atouch up with glases and see the results you establish, mine turn out disfigured in this programme.
cheers

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Permalink Reply by Gary Vernon on October 20, 2010 at 8:43am

Hi Rob,
"angle of incidence equals angle of reflection"
Chris Burfoot has a simple video on this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvDsJ9IcmuQ

On Portrait Pro, i haven't seen anything in there that can't be done better in Photoshop :-)

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Permalink Reply by rob on October 21, 2010 at 8:23am

hi gary and your absolutely right i use portrait pro because its simple and easy,
yes i am in very early learning stages of photoshop. portrait pro is a cheats programme.

now with camera clickers comments he has hit the nail on the head, Yes there are flaws in the programme and unfortunitly i didnt find out about them until after i brought the programme. the magasine practical photograpy and digital slr (both uk based give a blended opinion from there staff and critiques. would i purchase this if i new the flaws probably not, the best thing about this is it works with slide bars. have a great one, PS Camera Clickers and your feed back is always straight up. and always appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by CameraClicker on October 20, 2010 at 10:05am

I have to agree with Gary, I have been using Photoshop Elements for years and CS5 for a little while. I would not use Portrait Professional, but it was an interesting experiment. The demo version will not let you save your work, a sure sign there are program flaws they don't want you to find until after you have paid. Here is before and after from a screen capture

Since I have glasses on in the photo, it is easy to see where the distortion occurs when the program applies what it thinks should be changed. The frames get strange bends in them. You can adjust the individual sliders to remove the unwanted effects. Having a beard, I was able to see the effects around the mouth as well because it blurs the hairs when it stretches the image.

This program seems fast because anyone can get reasonable results right out of the box. Doing the same kinds of things with Photoshop will take the first time user hours. But after doing a dozen images, the Photoshop user will be able get better results in about the same amount of time with total control and will be able to do things this program can not do.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Vernon on October 20, 2010 at 10:37am

Oh my gawd CC
- what a very nice baby smooth skin lol...:-))

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Permalink Reply by CameraClicker on October 20, 2010 at 10:50am

Yep, pretty smooth!

Actually, it's a bit creepy moving the sliders and watching what that program does to your picture.

Looking at the picture on the right I get the same feeling as when I shave and then look in the mirror. Looks familiar but who is that person? LOL.

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