Faux CD cover - for critique

[opus]

This is a picture of my son, which I have photoshopped and made into a "faux" CD cover for him.

Whaddya think?
(aside from image degradation from the conversion to post here ... it seems to have suffered a bit.)

[>JJ<]

This is a picture of my son, which I have photoshopped and made into a "faux" CD cover for him.

Whaddya think?
(aside from image degradation from the conversion to post here ... it seems to have suffered a bit.)

Gday Kellybean,

Nice photograph Kelly,

I think the composition could be improved though, your son has very striking eyes, I have cropped the image so to highlight this feature. A perfect square crop usually looks better I find also.

I like the soft effect you have used, how did you do this?

Hope this helps,

JJ.

[opus]

Thank you JJ, my son will like this better. His only comment was, "but my nose looks even bigger now!"

I did several things to this (I hope I remember them all). It started as a very overexposed, out of focus shot. First I increased the contrast quite a bit to accentuate the lines, especially the nose which was disappearing whenever I applied effects, and decreased brightness. Then I went into shadow/highlight and decreased the highlight in order to get more detail in the overexposed areas, and increased the shadow.

Then the "effect" was created in Filter-->Distort-->Diffuse Glow. Then, because the colors were weird (too red), I decreased saturation until I got some browns I like.

I think that's about all. I should show you what I started with. (My son actually took the picture himself, that's why it's taken too close.)

[>JJ<]

Thank you JJ, my son will like this better. His only comment was, "but my nose looks even bigger now!"

This is confusing, are you being sarcastic?

The image I have attached only shows his eyes.

Thanks for explanation of the process you used.

[opus]

no, not being sarcastic. I hadn't shown your photo to my son yet when I posted the above; I was explaining why he hadn't liked the previous version I made.

Hope that clears up the confusion.

[almo]

If I were in the store looking for new music, I would have looked at the first before the second. JMO.