Edited version. Photography by Sean Horrell. Fashion and editing by Sarah Mancuso.
Original photo, with no editing. Photography by Sean Horrell, fashion by Sarah Mancuso
Here’s one of my rare attempts at photo shop. Sean took this photo on Halloween, in a brief shoot with quickly fading daylight. I was really proud of the outfit (aimed to be a gothic lolita Harajuku girl), as I spent about a month and a half putting it together. The whole outfit has about 30 pieces, bought evreywhere from craft stores to sex toy websites to facy jewelry stores for bridemaids’ gifts. For the record, I made the lace collar and ribbon and yarn hair pieces, and did all my own makeup.
*Ahem* Self-plug: over.
Anyways, I decided I wanted to try and touch some of these up, and so here’s my first result.
Sean gave me a few breif photoshop lessons before he left the house tonight, the most important probably being how to use curves and hue/saturation manipulation. As you can see, the difference is kinf of dramatic. Changes incude:
- Boosting blues
- Changing skin tone in neck, chest, and ears to match the face
- removing stray hairs on the face and shirt
- Changing the hue of the nail polish to better match the other blues in the outfit
- Removing the red from the whites of my eyes and below the nose (contacts and allergies, ack!)
- Sharpening and adjusting the overall brightness and smoothness of individual parts of the picture
I really am quite pleased with it!
