Hi. I’ve had a newborn photosession and the baby did not want to miss a thing! So unfortunately the eyes are open on almost all photos and it’s not the vibe we were going for.
I prepurchased a session pack including retouching and deep photoshopping, and asked the photographer to edit babys eyes closed.
But photographer refuses and says it’s not possible. I am happy with the other edits made, but disappointed with the eyes not being closed.
Do I have to accept the refusal or do you have some ideas on a tool that eases the proces?
I tried googling myself but I haven’t used Photoshop since a random media class in middle school so Idk if it really is that complicated or not. A lot of new tools and AI has been invented since then.
Follow up question:
If I just accept the photos as they are, can you recommend an AI program to help me achieve what I’m going for without losing too much of the resolution?
I wanted to print some of the portraits so the quality needs to be preserved as much as possible.
Thank you.
Somebody should xpost this to r/clientsfromhell
This feels like such an insane request.
This is your newborn. You expect a newborn to do what you want it to?
The vibe is off??
This is baby’s first photo session. What kind of demands are you going to have for school pictures? For team photos if they’re in sports, or senior portraits?
Leave the image alone. If you use AI or photoshop to close the eyes, that’s no longer an image of your child. That’s a fake, a picture of a time and event that never actually happened. A fiction. You would prefer to remember a fiction than your actual child.
As a photographer I would refuse to engage in this line of request, flat out. Here’s the photos of what authentically happened, in real life, eyes open. I’d turn over the photos and wash my hands of it.
Dude that’s a VFX artist job, not a simple photoshop edit. You’d need to create eyelids in 3d and change the shape of the face as the changes would include crimping of eye corner muscles and other fine touches to make it realistic.
People today seem to use Photoshop as some magic word to change anything and everything. Cant help but think “that poor photographer” as I read this…
Newborn photographer here! You need to adjust your expectations and then explain those expectations to the photographer.
If you tell the photographer that you expect the baby to have his or her eyes closed in most of the photos then you are going to have a bad time. As others have said, eyes are extremely difficult to Photoshop. The eyes are the first thing you look at in an image, and if there is something weird going on you can always tell.
However, chances are that the photographer has one or more photos of the baby when he or she was blinking. Maybe the photographer doesn’t want to sell you that photo because the lighting wasn’t right, or the posing wasn’t right, or the baby wasn’t completely in focus, or any number of other reasons that normally make an image un-sellable.
If you explain to the photographer that you know the baby was awake the whole time, and you know it’s unlikely, but you are hoping for just one picture of the baby with his or her eyes closed, and it doesn’t matter to you if it’s not quite as good as the other pictures, and you don’t care if it cropped weird, or the colors don’t match the rest of the gallery, or anything else. If you explain all that, then the photographer will probably move heaven and earth to do what they can.
Ofc its possible to do, but not in a way that looks good. No self respecting artist(/photographer) wants to put out stuff that they think is ridiculously bad.