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Colonel Santiago de-somethinged
This was a tough nut to crack, and, as is typical where Santiago is concerned, her nuts were bigger.
You learn things about a picture when you’re altering it. Santi had no shading under her eyes- that’s one of the things that was off about the anatomy/perspective. I dunno. The whole thing is subtly and not-so subtly borked, and it’s beyond my powers to fix it right. Basically, the perspective of her face is exaggerated, not entirely consistently, and that ruins the whole thing and is difficult to set right.
For a comparison w/ the original of my attempts see below: some differences don't stand out as much as I'd like them to at 100% in the .jpg format...
Santigo.jpg on the left is the datalinks portrait as it came out of the de-interlace function.
Santiago 1.5 in the middle is a full-out PhotoShopping, mostly with the smudge tool. Anyone who’s checked out my collaborations with Darsnan knows that I do not suck at that, though faces turned at angles a bit are very tricky to get right. This attempt has a few virtues, but the perspective is worse, if anything. I wanted to stay away from the features and only alter the shape of the face, but widening her right cheek made her look a tad man-ish and when I tried to compensate it was all downhill from there. It’s a much more thorough edit than I wanted, and doesn’t look quite like Corazon- her copycat, (half-ape) little sister, perhaps. I do not stand behind this result.
I was ready to declare defeat and go home, but gamely started over. Santiago2, right, is a much more modest (and much briefer) attempt, largely done in Paint using the proven Miriam technique of selecting square portions and pasting them back in moved over a pixel. Her right cheek is widened, and the left side of her face narrowed a bit. Like 1.5, it has the virtue of being lighter than the original- you can see her clothes and braid better and her edges generally aren’t as lost against the background. Her shading is softened, for the most part, and her hairline is cheated in a little. Women tend to look better with more of their foreheads covered. I feel like I can stand behind this version, but not close behind with a big grin on my face. The perspective just isn’t fixed. I wish she was better-looking, too. Santi has potential, but it's beyond me. Not as epic a fail, but still.
At least this is cleared off my agenda now.
Illuminatus, if you zoom in on the original, my confidence level isn’t as high as with Miriam, but I think signs are there that she was indeed the victim of less-than-virtuoso altering after the original artist was through with her…
As I've said before, I have little perspective about shots on which I spend more than a couple hours. More than usual, I'd like feedback to tell me whether these are any good.
Thoughts, anyone?
This was a tough nut to crack, and, as is typical where Santiago is concerned, her nuts were bigger.
You learn things about a picture when you’re altering it. Santi had no shading under her eyes- that’s one of the things that was off about the anatomy/perspective. I dunno. The whole thing is subtly and not-so subtly borked, and it’s beyond my powers to fix it right. Basically, the perspective of her face is exaggerated, not entirely consistently, and that ruins the whole thing and is difficult to set right.
For a comparison w/ the original of my attempts see below: some differences don't stand out as much as I'd like them to at 100% in the .jpg format...
Santigo.jpg on the left is the datalinks portrait as it came out of the de-interlace function.
Santiago 1.5 in the middle is a full-out PhotoShopping, mostly with the smudge tool. Anyone who’s checked out my collaborations with Darsnan knows that I do not suck at that, though faces turned at angles a bit are very tricky to get right. This attempt has a few virtues, but the perspective is worse, if anything. I wanted to stay away from the features and only alter the shape of the face, but widening her right cheek made her look a tad man-ish and when I tried to compensate it was all downhill from there. It’s a much more thorough edit than I wanted, and doesn’t look quite like Corazon- her copycat, (half-ape) little sister, perhaps. I do not stand behind this result.
I was ready to declare defeat and go home, but gamely started over. Santiago2, right, is a much more modest (and much briefer) attempt, largely done in Paint using the proven Miriam technique of selecting square portions and pasting them back in moved over a pixel. Her right cheek is widened, and the left side of her face narrowed a bit. Like 1.5, it has the virtue of being lighter than the original- you can see her clothes and braid better and her edges generally aren’t as lost against the background. Her shading is softened, for the most part, and her hairline is cheated in a little. Women tend to look better with more of their foreheads covered. I feel like I can stand behind this version, but not close behind with a big grin on my face. The perspective just isn’t fixed. I wish she was better-looking, too. Santi has potential, but it's beyond me. Not as epic a fail, but still.
At least this is cleared off my agenda now.
Illuminatus, if you zoom in on the original, my confidence level isn’t as high as with Miriam, but I think signs are there that she was indeed the victim of less-than-virtuoso altering after the original artist was through with her…
As I've said before, I have little perspective about shots on which I spend more than a couple hours. More than usual, I'd like feedback to tell me whether these are any good.
Thoughts, anyone?
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