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Frankly, I'm a bit of a babe in the woods when it comes to color. I

was trying to make the colors approximate a Botticelli, but I didn't

quite succeed. Can anyone suggest how I could have pulled it off?

Hello Edward, I had a look at this. You have the right model, hair and expression and the tones are about right. I think surface texture may be one way of getting that Botticelli look.

 

I'm happy to delete my attempt if you don't like it.

 

Regards. Pete

Indeed that is the picture I was hoping to emulate. I suspect part of the solution would have been to rely less on photoshop and more on creative use of a fill flash. And please keep your picture here!

For anyone who wants to try a hand at getting this right, here's the original.

Ned:

 

Here is my cut at it. I'll send you the PS file, if you want it and this is closer to the effect you were looking for.

This version adds a 30% Gaussian Blur set to screen blend mode and restricted to highlights.

Yes, that's great. How could I also keep the background so I can keep the reference to venus rising from the sea?

 

Patricia is the Queen of Photoshop!

I emailed you directions to download the PS file. To restore the background, just click off the layers labeled Clone BG, Patch BG and LCE. You have to turn off the LCE (Local Contrast Enhancement) layer only because it is a stamp visible layer and incorporates the BG removal layers. Just creat a new stamp visible layer (for LCE) with the background in versus out. LCE adjustments were Unsharp mask at 11% strength, 19 pixel radius and 0 threshold.

Patricia, when are you going to write your own book? I'm serious!