class 2 pics

In my second class I learned how retouch a portrait. This a picture of my mother who will be 60 years old this year. I spent so much time retouching my moms picture that I lost track of time to change up the picture for my post. In order to retouch this picture I simply took a layer and copied it. Then on the top layer I simply erased the signs of time. Restoring my mother's image to years past. She has always been such a beautiful women that even the hands of time could never dis troy her true beauty, because that comes from within. So wanted to capture the soul of my mother thru an image.

In the first image my is in a more natural color. I selected the image of my mother using the magic wand tool and attempted to feather out the edges to make them softer. In the second image I adjusted the hues and brightness of her image to match the colors more the background. It almost seems as if glowing. This is the picture that I feel capture her soul. The ground of all three images are roses that have been altered using the liquid function. In third image removed the color from my mothers photo and then added a frame to the background by altering the hue and saturation on the edge of the picture.