High-glitz pageant photo

This is one of the many headshots I recently took of my daughter for an upcoming pageant she has. I edited it "glitzy" because that is what the pageant called for

You are doing extreemly well on these types of pictures these days, great editing, and great capture.

Thank you

i will have to say great capture but the post editing is kinda bothering me. IMO the eyes seem fake and look like dolls eyes. Now that may be what the pageant is looking for but its takes my focus of the enitre picture and just to her plastic like eyes sorry

IMO the eyes seem fake and look like dolls eyes.

I may be mistaken but I think it was supposed to look like that.

As Tamra wrote:

I edited it "glitzy" because that is what the pageant called for

Which means she did a good job editing.

Xavier, that is ok you are entitled to your own opinion my husband also hates her glitz pictures, but that is the goal, to create a "perfect" doll-like image.

WOW, is all i have to say!!!

Thank you!!

Hi, great photo. I want to get into editing my daughters pageant photos too. What program do you use?
THanks
Danielle

Photoshop CS3

Thanks!! Do you know if there is a software that you can just add hair and eyelashes or do you have to draw them yourself? Because I had seen on one of the episodes of T & T that this one lady was doing the retouches and just picked out eyelashes and added jewelry etc. Thanks

Fantastic!!!! I love it! What a great photo!

How did you blur the edges like that? I am having such a hard time with blurring the edges of the picture itself not "all" edges of the subject. HELP!!!

Thanks! It is very simple, if you have photoshop you just use the blur tool and paint it wherever you want the blur at

Is there anyway you might could help me with this glitz editing technique? Espeically with the eyes.If you would i would so appreciate. My email is This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

D wrote:

Thanks!! Do you know if there is a software that you can just add hair and eyelashes or do you have to draw them yourself? Because I had seen on one of the episodes of T & T that this one lady was doing the retouches and just picked out eyelashes and added jewelry etc. Thanks

Portrait Professional will do that with minimal effort. I use it for some photos. I find that if I am not careful it will correct too much. I will post a couple of photos I did using Portrait Professional so you can see what it can do. I don't keep before and after photos though so I can't show you what they were before the modification. You have to have a pretty powerful computer though as it is a cad based program.

I as well would love to learn to do my daughters photos. Any advice would be helpful.
april

Thank you very much for your response! Id love to see your work! Where is the best place to buy that program?

Shutterbug this month did a write up on the latest version of that program (version 9) here: http://www.shutterbug.net/news/080509anthro/index.html

One of the nice things is you can alter every aspect of it. I have found that many times I don't want it to get carried away so once the correction is done, I reduce it so it doesn't give it the Glamour Shots (plastic) effect. Here are a few of the photos I re-worked with it:









You have to be careful when using it with older women because they may not necessarily want to look like a runway model. That's why being able to reduce the effect comes in so handy. I do have to re-work details such as crow's feet prior to bringing it into the program. Otherwise I have found that it doesn't do a good job on them. But since I normally do that anyway, it is no big deal and since I am using version 8, version 9 may have corrected that, I don't know.

What plugin do you use to replace the eyes with?

I don't replace the eyes. What you see is what is shot. All the software does is correct the whites of the eyes.

That pic of your daughter looks amazing. I too am a mother of a child who does pageant and we started out natural and now have to do glitz bc there just isnt that many natural pageants, and the ones there are she has one. Anyways, I am trying to re touch her photo and I got most if it down except the eyes and eyebrows. I am using Photoshop..is there any way you can walk me through it bc in that pic her eyebrows look so great the way they are shaped and all. thanks!

For the eyebrows you need to go online and download some eyebrow brushes, and for the eyelashes you need to download brushes for those also.

I have downloaded the lashes and brows from obsidiandawn.com. My problem is the pic I have of my daughter that I really want to re touch is that it is like slanted, so do you know how to adjust brows and lashes as such? Thanks for getting back to me.

Create a new layer for them and rotate the layer.

I was wondering if there was a plugin or preset for the eye reflection?

Tamara,

Would you PLEASE send me an email at alainaforsheephotography.com? I have a question about glitz editing and I can't find an answer anywhere on the net???

Great job on the picture!

Thanks,

Alaina