And a BW for good measure:
Had to clone-in a right eye for this one since the original was too dark to work with. Originally posted by xecutech Do you soften with a lens filter, or in photoshop? I will post the color pic for comparison when I get back to my desk.
I most often use
Imagnomic Portraiture for skin softening because of its speed and versatility at cleaning-up blemishes. However, with babies, its quite common to run the image through another filter(ie. glamor) to get things right(I might pull back on the final softening pass to get it just right).
However before all this, I use to use Photoshop's gaussian blur. But I always found it to be a bit of a challenge to control with portraits and so I think it often comes down to what people are most comfortable with.
Having said that, if you're planning on doing lots of people pictures, then I'd highly recommend giving Imagenomic portraiture a try.
PS. I don't sell of work for Imagenomic btw. I just like that plugin.
Originally posted by xecutech Thank you, and that's why I went with the black and white. I did shoot them raw, so I could go back and work on it some more.
Absolutely!
If you have the RAW file, you're golden.
I see no reason why you couldn't walk away with a studio grade portrait from this one.
Good luck and if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask. I'd be more than happy to help wherever possible.