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[Mitsuru]

I've met the limits of my patience. I'm not skilled with art of any medium to begin with (anyone who has seen my stick figure scenes can attest to that!), but two days for something like this seems excessive even for a Photoshop noob like me. Those of you with mountains more talent and experience, would you mind lending me your brains?



The pieces I used are here:
Tezuka
OC
Background

The problems I can't seem to solve:

• Composition. It supposed to seem as if he's standing behind her, arms wrapped around her, his cheek pressed to her temple. Something's off here and I can't pinpoint it -- face or height ratio, maybe, or the fact that a woman in this position would typically tilt her head under the pressure. But if I try to rotate her face, her hair goes insane and breaks. His shoulder doesn't seem like it's in the right position, either, to indicate reaching forward.
  
• Cleanup. Can't for the life of me seem to completely get rid of the halo where I trimmed around the characters, especially around their hair.
  
• Consistency. I can't seem to sharpen her up enough or soften him enough, or bring the background into balance with either, so that it looks at least somewhat cohesive. And maybe it's just me, but it seems like the lines of his shirt are a little too ... soft/bland/detexturized?
  
• Blending. Trying to blend the foreground into the background so that it looks like they're organic to the background. Also, I don't know what to do with the part where his hair meets hers. I tried blurring/smudging, but it just looks too weird.
  
• Lighting. All over the place. Presumably on a sunny day like this in an environment like this, they'd be lit up with a bit of a glow.

If anyone's interested in playing with it, I'd be happy to send you my PSD file.

Thank you so much!

[bakayaaa]

*looks at the post for a few minutes*

Uhh...

Maybe I can help (but I'll do it after my midterms this week) /not really a Photoshop expert but I get by~

[MokonaModoki]

I think the main problem is both of the characters are drawn in very different styles (especially the shading) that they don't look right together. Try to blur the shading on Tezuka's skin ^^

Edit: Tried to merge them during procrastinating. Tried to change the shoulder but it is still as awkward as ever (perhaps even worse) =_= I flipped the girl then left hair between their faces. I'm quite satisfied with the light though. It comes from the top right corner.

Edited by Alice, 25 April 2012 - 03:00 PM.

[Mitsuru]

This is overdue, but thank you so much for giving it a shot, Alice. Really, the whole problem would be resolved if I'd just learn to draw... ._.