# Photoshop requests thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224 "2017-05-09T21:38:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![femmejean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/1 "2017-05-09T21:38:17Z")
Found an image of an attractive young woman on Reddit and I would like to have her image for a ‘face’ folder. :dubious: (inb4 weird)… This could also turn into a general photoshop request thread on MPSIMS but now I kindly ask that someone would 1.) make her eyes dark brown/‘black’ (Asian/African) 2.) Make the background a soft white or soft grey colour. [Pretty Girl](http://i.imgur.com/v3OCIxk.jpg) Thanks 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/2 "2017-05-10T22:16:43Z")
While you’re at it, remove the garrote. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/3 "2017-05-10T22:40:16Z")
Whoever already worked on that image really sucked at Photoshop. (hard edge around hair, gray teeth, garotte, skin tone, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/4 "2017-05-10T23:00:46Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Whoever already worked on that image really sucked at Photoshop. > > (hard edge around hair, gray teeth, garotte, skin tone, etc.) Looks fine to me. Lighting could better, but as an image to work with, it’s fine. It doesn’t look to me like it’s Photoshopped much at all. ---
**Author:** ![femmejean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/5 "2017-05-11T00:52:59Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > While **you’re at it** > [@Gatopescado](#): > > remove the garrote. My photoshop skills are quite atrocious. I’ve only _barely_ mastered changing eye color. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/6 "2017-05-11T01:32:19Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Looks fine to me. Lighting could better, but as an image to work with, it’s fine. It doesn’t look to me like it’s Photoshopped much at all. Look at the border between the hair and background. It makes the hair look like it’s made of plaster. Real hair doesn’t look like that. If nothing else, they should have feathered the background after selecting it. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/7 "2017-05-11T01:36:21Z")
It looks like green screen work, with a ho-hum lighting job. I don’t see any proper studio lights in her eyes, and her shadowy face shows that it wasn’t a good studio shot. But if she had a green screen, wouldn’t she have good lighting? Maybe someone was indeed cropping out an annoying background and they did a not-so-awesome job. ETA: On second look, the light looks very smooth, like it was from a window–normally an excellent place for a shot. It probably looked more natural with the original background. ETA2: I realized I’m just nitpicking the photo and not helping the OP…sorry about that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![femmejean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/8 "2017-05-11T10:38:49Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > It looks like green screen work, with a ho-hum lighting job. > I don’t see any proper studio lights in her eyes, and her shadowy face shows that it wasn’t a good studio shot. > > But if she had a green screen, wouldn’t she have good lighting? > > Maybe someone was indeed cropping out an annoying background and they did a not-so-awesome job. > > ETA: On second look, the light looks very smooth, like it was from a window–normally an excellent place for a shot. It probably looked more natural with the original background. > ETA2: I realized I’m just nitpicking the photo and not helping the OP…sorry about that 🙂 Well here’s the original image [Pretty Girl - Original](https://i.redd.it/agj5b4fo8tvy.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/9 "2017-05-11T13:37:32Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > ETA: On second look, the light looks very smooth, like it was from a window–normally an excellent place for a shot. It probably looked more natural with the original background. There’s at least two clear light sources, judging by the catchlights in the eye. Actually, the left catchlight is a little bit odd–a bit bluer and actually looks like two light sources (not necessarily lights–they could be a window or something, too, but it looks relatively small or far away from your typical “right by the window” portrait, so it comes off looking like a harsher light source than it might be.) Anyhow, yes, it’s cut out from a background. I’m sorry I was unclear, but I meant it’s a reasonable image to start with for a quick Photoshop composite/alteration, and there wasn’t much Photoshop (as in the complaints about skin tone, teeth, garotte, etc.) It was obviously only cut from the image, with nothing else done to it. Anyhow, sorry, doesn’t help the OP. Of course, this sort of thread needs the classic “Photoshop request” smart-ass type Photoshop jobs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/10 "2017-05-11T13:44:26Z")
I should also add, there also seems to be a general overhead soft light source that looks like it is providing most of the light. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/11 "2017-05-11T14:56:16Z")
(photo geekery to follow…can be safely ignored) Well, now that we can see the original… Blech! Now I know why someone removed the background. That lens has terrible [bokeh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh). It looks like it may have been a mirror lens, creating the distracting donuts characteristic of the class. See the [first photo on this page](https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=23898.0) for an example of mirror-lens bokeh. The out-of-focus specular highlights are all rendered as donut shapes because of the construction of the lens. Those lenses may be great for many things, but they aren’t portrait lenses. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/12 "2017-05-11T16:12:33Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > (photo geekery to follow…can be safely ignored) > > Well, now that we can see the original… > > Blech! > > Now I know why someone removed the background. That lens has terrible [bokeh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh). It looks like it may have been a mirror lens, creating the distracting donuts characteristic of the class. See the [first photo on this page](https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=23898.0) for an example of mirror-lens bokeh. The out-of-focus specular highlights are all rendered as donut shapes because of the construction of the lens. > > Those lenses may be great for many things, but they aren’t portrait lenses. I eventually found the Reddit thread, and apparently the background is a bottle cap mural in a school. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224/13 "2017-05-11T16:25:14Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I eventually found the Reddit thread, and apparently the background is a bottle cap mural in a school. Interesting… the plot thickens! Then I have no idea what kind of lens did this.