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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 10/9/2005
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Thanks Ahmet!
Angela
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Ahmet Baki Kocaballi
{K:13618} 10/9/2005
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beautiful moment and capture
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 10/9/2005
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tu you..
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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 10/9/2005
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Thanks on both accounts Roberto!
Angela
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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 10/9/2005
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Thanks Susie! And I'm glad you pointed that front page out, I hadn't gone there yet today. What a great surprise!
Angela
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 10/9/2005
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nicely and delicate light angela.. great mood, anc congrats for the FC!
roby
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Susie OConnor
{K:34798} 10/9/2005
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Front page again? Wow. Congrats Angela. All of your work deserves to be showcased. Have fun!
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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 9/26/2005
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Thanks again Krista!
Anglea
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Krista Chamberlain
{K:1003} 9/26/2005
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What an intimate moment. It is a very sweet photo. Your tones are great
Krista
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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 9/25/2005
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Thanks Susie!
Angela
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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 9/25/2005
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Thanks Hamed!
Angela
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Susie OConnor
{K:34798} 9/25/2005
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Very nice shot. They should love this!
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Hamed Noori
{K:6805} 9/24/2005
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Very nice shot .
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Angela Freed
{K:10061} 9/24/2005
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Wow! thanks for all that Timothy. I defintely have been wanting to do more ofthis type of thing with my PS. I appreciate you taking the time to write it all down for me!
Angela
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Timothy Tanguay
{K:1682} 9/24/2005
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made an action for BW conversion,
ctrl-1,ctrl-a copy paste on new layer, name the layer 'Red' take a snapshot, ctrl-2 ctrl-a copy paste on new layer, name this layer green, take a snapshot, ctrl-3 copy/paste on new layer, name this layer blue take a snapshot, quick layer mask all of the new channel. open each of the snapshots in a new window, click on window-arrange-tile.
The reason you do the snapshots, and open in new windows is so that you can see what each of the layers look like, and which aspect of each BW image you would like to take. You basically mask in/out each portion of the BW image that you like best. Once you have done that, ctrl-shift-e (merge all visible) then do some selective colour adjustments. Play with the black, white and grey components until you get a decent image. If you end up with a bit of a gray cast, adding +10 to contrast using the brightness/contrast adjustment tool can do wonders.
I have found, that if you have a well exposed portrait with nice skin tones, the red channel works very well for skin, (it cleans it up, and makes the skin look really pure) then use the blue/green channels to brings the lip details back in. If the exposure is off, then you loose all the detail on skin using the red channel. Using the above method, i normally have the red channel on the bottom, with no mask on it, then i 'paint in' the other layers as i see fit. does this make sense? I should probably make a tutorial or something for it, i just haven't had all that much time to do that sort of thing.
A good trick for getting wikked-looking eyes; once you have your BW image good to go, open the original colour image, paste the BW image over top, then mask out the eyes. You should now be able to see colour eyes in the BW image. Brighten the bottom layer with curves (one point, dead center, drag the point up) Oversaturate the eyes, add a ton of contrast, and play with selective colour levels. Desaturate the bottom layer, you should have some funky looking eyes, this trick works especially well with blue/green eyes. Check out the 'cowgirl' picture in my gallery, i used both techniques i talked about above. I hope this helps
If I am feeling lazy, or am in a rush, i normally just press ctrl-shift-u (desaturate) then play with the selective colours, (i start with the black channel, add a bit of cyan, magenta, or whatever.) add a bit of contrast, and then that does it. the first method is time consuming at first, but once you get the hang of it, it works really well.
~Tim~
i know i promised this a while ago, i forgot,  then just remembered today. hope it helps
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