Cupcake Hand

[agresbach]

I took this photo of my daughters hand while she was eating a cupcake and thought it turned out kinda cool. My wife is a hand therapist and was maybe wanting to get it blown up and framed on her clinics wall but we wanted to make some adjustments first. The purple bib in the corner is too distracting so i was playing with cropping a little bit of it out but dont know what else i can do as far as cloning or toning down. one other thing we were trying was to do a little bit of a blur effect around the hand to draw the eye to it more. would anyone have any advice what we could do to improve? feel free to edit however you'd want. i can send a higher quality version if needed too
thanks!

[neonmike]

I don't see any need to add blur around the hand.Infact if anything the pinky and ring fingers look a little blurred already.

As for the bib, I'd suggest selecting it in photoshop or some other program and adjust the hues to lighten them a bit. This will give the purple tone a faded color that should be less distracting.

I'll see what I can do for ya.

[agresbach]

thank you for the tips. i did notice the blur on the outter parts of the hands and i'm ok with how it is in that regard.
I actually had the help of a coworker on cloning out the bib and he did a great job i think. here's the final result. i think i'm happy with how it turned out. what do you think?

[neonmike]

I cropped it down a little to eliminate the blurred section on the bib. That seemed more distracting than the bib itself.

[agresbach]

I cropped it down a little to eliminate the blurred section on the bib. That seemed more distracting than the bib itself.

thank you for taking the time to help out with this! i agree the crop does improve it.

[neonmike]

That is a good cloning job. I like that much better. I was gonna clone it out when I got home tonight. I can only afford so much time for fun projects during the day.

[agresbach]

That is a good cloning job. I like that much better. I was gonna clone it out when I got home tonight. I can only afford so much time for fun projects during the day.

not a problem at all. thank you for helping out with you can! i agree i was very pleased with the cloning job! even better he showed me how he did it so hopefully i can do it the next time :)
hopefully it turns out as a good blown up print!

[neonmike]

Yeah cloning is definately the way to go with it.

No problem about helping out. I love tinkering with pics.

[StephenK]

There's a number of pretty interesting images to work with going back a ways! :^)




http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll202/StephenKr/200900hand2.jpg

[Kaye]

Stephen, you have an amazing imagination. Really well done!!

[StephenK]

Thank You Kaye! :^) I'm enjoying this while I can! I have to go back to work next week and will likely be working non-stop
for the better part of December! :eek:

There are Really cool images buried back in the archives..! As you can see I've been a hunt'en... :^)

[sorted]

Hi

Had a little play myself but could not even go as far as Stephen's :)
I cropped rather than Cloned Adjusted Saturation and Lighting.
Not prehaps what you are looking at getting but thanks for the chance :):)

[StephenK]

That looks great Elaine! A really nice crisp/clean edit! I tend to throw the kitchen sink at some of my stuff but a solid clean
edit is really what editing's all about! Nicely done! :^)