Retouching help needed
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A client of mine wants to take a group shot image I took of the five of them and age each person 10 years (add wrinkles, recede hair, etc.) for a cute “Ten years from now” portion of their PowerPoint presentation in Orlando next weekend. This is a little outta my skill set and I’m having a hard time finding a service with confidence (and not in India). Can anyone recommend a good and reasonable retoucher here on the continent? Someone I can call for questions without dialing 12-15 numbers? I’m running out of time so any help would be appreciated.
Here’s the shot for reference sake:
Doug I know an absolute wizard at smudges and painterlies, retouches etc. I can’t say one way or the other if he’d do it, I cant say if he’s aged people but he might be worth a try. He could be earning vast sums of his work. I wish he would try.
Some samples
pm me if you want I’ll get you in touch.
Hi Doug
John asked me to contact you…….
If you send me a hi res I am happy to try to help.
best wishes
Ray
A little of what I do
I have seen some voodoo magic in the studio with the following tricks (not my own, just observation). Download an image from iStock (or shoot yourself) some crinkled paper or wavy lines. Then take your image and carefully mask off the faces and save as an alpha channel. Then load the alpha channel and fill with the crinkled paper or wavy line image and set the blend mode to overlay or soft light or whatever looks good. then carefully paint in black at 10-30% to bring in the underlying facial features. Then do a shift-option-command new layer command and work on that as a new layer. Bring up the liquify tool and with a very small brush add in wrinkles and wavy lines and droop the lips and eyes. After that you can hit the image with filters like Topaz to enhance details and wrinkles. Finally, turn the hair white by creating a black/white copy and masking the hair and decreasing the opacity to effect.
It’s worth a try, LOL
However, based on the responses above you probably have all the help you need to get the result.
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