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.
If there is a similar photo with the eyes closed, it certainly is possible to cut the the eyes out and paste them over in Photoshop.
https://youtu.be/ZYPhKxisatA?si=iIlWSsXR5czFfxes
If they offered “deep photoshoping” as a feature of your package, I would hope this is within their skill set and time budget.
As the eyes are the focus of the photo, it needs to be done well or it will ruin the photo.
Thank you and finally someone who understands where I’m coming from. That I’m not trying to be vain or whatever, but in my eyes the request was in line with something like “one of my kids blinked with one eye half shut, can you fix it?”
But I’ve certainly learnt the limits of Photoshop and I appreciate all the answers on this thread.
Even more for babies, facial muscles make all the face look different when eyes are open or closed. Maybe he can but he thinks that it wouldn’t look right, reworking a whole face is immediately a lot harder.
That’s a tough ask. Are there professional retouchers in the world who could do it? Yes? But we’re talking about people who specialize in retouching and are probably earning a few hundred dollars an hour…. Easily costing more than you spent for the shoot, likely significantly more. Most photographers don’t have that level of retouching skill. You’re asking them to basically draw their eyes shut because they don’t have a reference to copy it from. Thats a huge ask. Everybody thinks anything can be done in photoshop these days but it’s really not the case. Creating something from whole cloth is difficult. I don’t think it’s a fair ask.
Sounds like your photographer isn’t very good at photoshop.
This is one for /r/photoshoprequests, those guys are legends at this kind of thing.
Oh nice! I am new at redditing and don’t know all the good subs yet! Thanks!!
Respectfully, this person is pranking you, that’s mostly a joke sub. Not that people aren’t talented there, they are, but serious requests are rare and it’s mostly for the meme. Worst case scenario would be they think a photo of your baby is funny and then it ends up getting used in memes or other edits or something without your permission. Also, like another commenter said, it’s likely against your contract with your photographer to have someone else edit the photos.