Jessie

[reval8r]

Jessie and I had a photo shoot today and I'm just now starting to look at the images. It looks like we got some really good images and I thought I would share a couple. Please feel free to cc.

http://www.astonishingportraits.com/picts/JessieB_preview_003.jpg

http://www.astonishingportraits.com/picts/JessieB_preview_002.jpg

[lisadaisy36]

Wow, her hair looks so soft, especially in the first one. How did you do that?

[reval8r]

Hi Lisa,
The hair was done with a program called Portrait Professional. It's about the only part of the program I use is to smooth hair. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes in Portrait Professional, but I work for an hour in PS to get this look. The rest of post was done in PS.

[umajo]

i really like the top one the red stands out so much

[jerryph]

The commercial variant that has become rather well liked amongst the amateurs is Imagnomics Portraiture PS CS3 plug-in.

The above pics are all aweseome and really give me something to shoot for as a goal to reach one day. :)

[reval8r]

The commercial variant that has become rather well liked amongst the amateurs is Imagnomics Portraiture PS CS3 plug-in.

The above pics are all aweseome and really give me something to shoot for as a goal to reach one day. :)

Thanks so much for the compliment Jerry.

The biggest problem I have in post is cleaning up hair and making it look good. I find the Portrait Professional very good to help speed up the process, but I don’t really care for it else wise. It just over does everything for my taste. I’ve tried several PS plugins, but don’t really like them. The Imagnomics Portraiture PS CS3 plug-in is ok, but I can’t really justify the cost of it for what I would use it for. I’m getting almost happy with the results I’m obtaining in post. I’m just now getting a feel of what I want and how to get if with PS. I’m just now really getting my feet wet in digital photography and only started working with pp in digital a few months ago, so I still have much too learn.

[jerryph]

Don't we all, Larry! :D

[LensBaby]

I also use portrait professional, but I also think it is a little "too much" at times. The first photo is a excellent!

[reval8r]

I also use portrait professional, but I also think it is a little "too much" at times. The first photo is a excellent!

I use portrait professional very little. For some reason I upgraded to version 8 a couple of days ago. The first image was my first attempt at using the new version. The hair feature is new to version 8 and I really love the silky look you can get on the hair. I wish I knew how to do this in PS, but hair gives me the hardest time in PS.