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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Impossible to close open eyes? It is, according to my professional photographer 🤨 (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I see that know! Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I get where you’re coming from but this is not 100% correct. It’s very easy to do and barely an hours worth of work. Since these guys were charging for the “Deep Photoshopping” (whatever the fuck that is), you can ask for some of that money back. I would

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes and no. With a bit of stable diffusion knowledge this should not be a hard task to do. @op i can try do it for you