20 year old photograh...

[Sandra Jackson]

I tweaked it a little in Photoshop. This is a tough reference to work from. I hope this helps.

[Monique McFarland]

Originally Posted by Sandra Jackson

I tweaked it a little in Photoshop. This is a tough reference to work from. I hope this helps.

Helps? sure it does!! Tweak away!! I'll email you the original scanned photo and we'll pool our photoshop talents...you up for it? as long as it still resembles them she'll be thrilled and anything to help the process along on my end will be a blessing...that's why I like to do what I can with difficult references in photoshop first instead of changing EVERYTHING as I paint. I get more and more excited the more I tweak the ref. to make it ideal. I hadn't even begun to mess with color in ps, just his expression and the red spots taken out.

[Marcus Lim]

Hi,
I have a fair share of experiences with old photos, and i found that they may tend to "bleach out" and incline towards certain colors - like i believe this photo was taken with Fujifilm, because over here it's a common film brand, and they tend towards greenish-yellow tinge when they start fading.

Even with the scan you may notice even more of this coloring effect, with help from Sandra's photoshop.

My advice is to find a child model to pose for you under a similar shade, and take new photos to add to the references you'll be working with, besides using what has been provided.

I'm sure the new references will be able to provide deeper insights to the light and shade of the children's faces in the shade.

[Monique McFarland]

Originally Posted by Marcus Lim

Hi,
I have a fair share of experiences with old photos, and i found that they may tend to "bleach out" and incline towards certain colors - like i believe this photo was taken with Fujifilm, because over here it's a common film brand, and they tend towards greenish-yellow tinge when they start fading.

Even with the scan you may notice even more of this coloring effect, with help from Sandra's photoshop.

My advice is to find a child model to pose for you under a similar shade, and take new photos to add to the references you'll be working with, besides using what has been provided.

I'm sure the new references will be able to provide deeper insights to the light and shade of the children's faces in the shade.

GREAT idea!

Thanks!!

[Monique McFarland]

I finally, and I do mean finally, completed this painting...it's posted in the "unveilings" section. Let me know what you think!

Thanks!