I want to know...

[elenniel]

Which baka decided to make MatsuJun's pic in the latest Duet photoshoot look like this???


(scan credit to wingist6)

... Seriously.

The overall photoshoot was great, but what was up with that blue filter on Jun's pic?? I think it's pretty obvious that the colouring was done in "post production" because you can see a brown patch on the table and on the bricks in the original picture. Setting aside the bad choice to colour the photo blue, that editing in itself is subpar. Why leave patches of the original colour like that? It's just weird and makes no sense.
It doesn't make sense either if you say that maybe the photo was already taken with a colour filter on the camera and those patches were edited later. In fact, that's even stupider. Why add in two brown patches? hahah... so that argument is totally null and void.

Because I like the pic, but hate the colour, I fixed it myself. I had to. It was driving me crazy to see such a beautiful photo wasted that way.

So nine Photoshop layers and about an hour later...



He's human again! :P
Isn't it sooooooo much better now?
♥

(Hahah okay, I dunno. Maybe some of you might like the blue tone. For my part, I hated it. ^^ )

Comments

[aozora86.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA he seems a dead man in the original pic xDDDDDDDDD yours is much better xDDD

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

He really does look like a dead man in the original. My friend said he looks like a vampire, and I said he looks like a ghost. So basically we can infer that the picture looks horrible. XP
I don't know what the art director was thinking... >.<

Luckily I managed to "bring him back to life". hahah

[minime17.livejournal.com]

I was thinking why is Jun so...blue,when others have a normal color.The way you made it-it looks soooo much nicer :) It's a beautiful picture <3

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^^

(I'm wondering if I should share the full size of the edited pic... hmmm)

BTW, nice Arashi avatar XD

[snoew.livejournal.com]

so u fixed it with alot of 'yellow'
hahahhahahha

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

LOL
yes I did :P
"yellow."
ahahaha

[pearlsphere.livejournal.com]

Gooooorgeous Jun, with healthy flesh again XD, after say again 9 LAYERS?! Much love to PS ♥ and to you for fixing it. Perhaps you should send it to Duet with a notice telling them this outcome would have been the best LOL.

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

heheh
(9 layers isn't a lot, actually... ^^ )

Send a notice to Duet? I wonder how that would read...
"Dear Editor-san,
Why did you let them do that to Matsumoto Jun's picture? That was silly. This (picture enclosed) would have been sooooo much better."
XDD

[twistedhalo04.livejournal.com]

Yes it looks so much more better.

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? ^^
Thanks! hehe

[moonchild5.livejournal.com]

yes it does, amazing job! wish i could learn how to use photoshop properly as well. =) any chance of you sharing the full-sized version? XD

btw, where did you get the orig pic for that icon (the one on the comment i replied to) u're using? Jun seems to literally glow here. Thanks! hope u don't mind me being too nosy. hehe.

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha!
I was thinking of sharing the full-sized version, actually... But haven't yet decided if I'll share it publicly or for my f-list ^^; Maybe I'll post it public eh? ^^

This icon where Jun is reading, you mean? I got it from kimiwapet2150's AAA photobook scans :)
Totally loved the pic because it seems to show Jun's more intellectual side, in a way. heheh

[tenjostyle.livejournal.com]

Oh! I love better your version! May I ask it? <3 <3

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

=D Thank you!

I'll be posting the HQ version soon I think - just need to check it over again to make sure it's perfect :D

Maybe I'll drop a comment in your LJ to let you know when I post it, yea? :)

[tenjostyle.livejournal.com]

Thank you~ ^___^
perfectionist like Jun? <3

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

ahahaha
Apparently, yes. "perfectionist like Jun" ^^
(Feels as though everyone's saying I'm like Jun nowadays... lol!)

[tenjostyle.livejournal.com]

working hard? ^^

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

Ah... At the moment, since it's the weekend, I'm relaxing more ne XD
(Watching Utaban and other videos. hahah!)

[tenjostyle.livejournal.com]

Me too! Just watched Utaban talk!!! kyaaaaa!!!!

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

Utaban talk was so fun, wasn't it? All the Ohno-Nakai parts XDD

[tenjostyle.livejournal.com]

Hai!! I love the Ohno x Nakai battles! but this time, about Valentine topics, and more... the Hana Yori Arashi with Jun was loveee <3 (and Ohno, but this goes to Nakai battles xD)

[elenniel.livejournal.com]

Oooh I really liked Jun's suggestion for the girl's confession (I've forgotten the girl's name)! It was so cute~

BTW, I've uploaded the HQ version of the pic. :D Check here (http://elenniel.livejournal.com/51048.html). heheh

[tenjostyle.livejournal.com]

ha~i! This is why he steals our hearts *doki doki*

[xevluvmatsujun.livejournal.com]

i think yours is much better, even though i still like him on the original pic. ^^ thankyu so much for "bring matsujun back to life" XDD