Jalex fanart: wedding?

[justmediya]

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[malidocious]

Haha, this is cute. I wish it was bigger, though!!

[justmediya]

thanks! sorry, I didn't have a bigger version of the pic :(

[malidocious]

Don't apologize! :) It is lovely!

[justmediya]

thanks! no, I actually did want a bigger version. and a whiter version too, but tilante did that :)

[tilante]

Love it! I may have to dig for screencaps from that episode, see if I can put one together with both of them standing.... :-)

[tilante]

Decided I liked it so much, I made a new userpic out of it! Shrunk and cropped to get it in the 100-pixel limit, whitened the dress a little more, greyed out everything but Alex and Justin, and then added the caption. Hope you like it!

[justmediya]

wow I love your icon!!! O.o If you used photoshop, how did you whiten the dress so well?????

[tilante]

I used Photoshop Elements, which is the cheap "simple" version. The one I have is also an older version (version 4), so I'm not sure how close the menus are to the current versions (or the full version). With those caveats, here's what I did:

- First, I tried using the "Auto Smart Fix" on the "Enhance" menu. That made the dress very white, but also changed the color of their skin to be too grey.

- So, I undid that, then created a new layer that was a duplicate of the original picture. I did "Auto Smart Fix" on that layer, then took the eraser tool, set it to a size about the width of Alex's arm, put it to 20%, and started erasing over Alex and Justin's skin and hair until I liked the skin color I had.

So... I didn't really do much of anything to the dress, just let the automated tool do it. I think the full Photoshop should have it as well, but I'm not sure what it'll be called there, or what menu it'll be on... hope that helps, though!

[musiccrazy128]

haha, I LOVE it. :)

[justmediya]

thanks buddy :)

[justmediya]

thanks!!! LOL yeah, don't we all live in hopes ;)