Trying the Porcelain Effect

[westiemom]

I had a photo that I took at my Grandson's birthday party that wasn't very good, so I thought I'd try the porcelain effect on it.

Anita

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1VGQYnyDAB9YV2L0sdeESv0DX7SIkx1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1VGQYnyDAB9YV2L0sdeESv0DX7SIkx1)

[juneandbob]

Anita. actual seize you see those eyes.(I'm blind w/o glasses)the effect came out great. very nice:) boB

[ChristineV]

Wow! What a gorgeous grandson! I wonder what it would look lke with color in his eyes?

[AngelicKim]

Anita, I saw this earlier. Awesome job. The eyes are great.

[JulieM]

Anita, that is one of the best porcelain effects I've seen! What fabulous eyes!

[nkeevers]

Anita, that is just beautiful! I love that effect. I've tried but haven't had anything look like yours. Can you share how you got it to look so perfect?

[kimmer]

Anita,

That is truly the most beautiful child! How lucky you are.

I have Elements 2.0 and after I saw what you did, I wanted to duplicate it with one of my photos. However, I cannot find the Porcelain Effect. I went to Effects, but it is not there. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Do you have a more recent version that it is included with?

If I am not looking in the wrong spot, does anyone know if this effect can be downloaded into my version?

Kimmer

[AngelicKim]

Hi Kimmer and welcome. The porcelain effect is not included with Elements. You can purchase and action for it or there is a tut in one of Kimi's homework assignments. I'll find it for you.

Here it is
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26518&highlight=homework

[fdlite]

There are a couple of places to find this effect. One of first places that I found it was in a PET. training (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26518), duckettphoto (http://www.duckettphoto.com/lessons/pencil/index.htm) and myjanee (http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/porcelain/porcelain.htm).

Thanks,
Dane

[kimmer]

Kim,

Thank you for the reply. I am new at this 'forum' thing.:( So, I clicked on the basic link that you gave, then it asked me for my username and password--I entered the same as I use for the forum, but it said that it was incorrect.

do I have to sign up separately for the tutorials or am I just doing it wrong?

Thanks for your help.

I really want to learn this. I also have Photoshop 7 besides Elements.

Kimmer

[deedeeO]

There are a couple of places to find this effect. One of first places that I found it was in a PET. training (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26518), duckettphoto (http://www.duckettphoto.com/lessons/pencil/index.htm) and myjanee (http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/porcelain/porcelain.htm).

Thanks,
Dane

thanks for sharing these links Dane....so much you can do with this effect.

and Anita, those eyes are just captivating. Perfect effect for this photo!!

[westiemom]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I used Kimi's homework as the basis for this and then I just slowly dodged until I liked it. Like I said the original photo wasn't very good at all, so this effect saved it.

Anita

[jjf2011]

I just purchased a porcelain effect and am running it with Photoshop Elements 5.0, I've come up with an ok picture but not with a porcelain effect. What I ended up with was a b/w photo with faded soft edges. Can anyone suggest maybe some settings that I can play with to get the procelain effect?
Any and all help will be a welcome relief. Please send suggestions to jjf2011@yahoo.com

Regards,
Joseph