A colourful little character

Wow! Such a lot of work Amelia. Well done!

I didn't make it easy for myself, Janano, but ended up enjoying the challenge.

Ein super Ergebnis! Auch ich mag dieses Umkehr-Thema nicht so gern.

I think there is a lack of basic good taste in this photo, Chrissy. ;-)
I might try something much simpler.

Well done! =)

I learned a lot, Sami, but will probably never use the inversion technique for any other photos.

Looking at your pips you have picked the right image for this challenge .......I think you have done brilliantly with this one Amelia *****

One can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but rarely all of the people all of the time. ;-)

Well this pleases me very much !!!!

You did very well with this. I've tried working with layers a few times, but seem to get lost between the different layers.

I don't think I could face up to this level of challenge very often, Harriet. It was time consuming but instructive.

Originale

Maybe it is really the problem of the "model" - or of what you invert. I hadn't any problem with Judith's plant-leafs. Not even with that purple one. The opposite did happen: I even saw it more or less naturally. It seems to be a big difference with humans. Our feeling of what is right and what isn't (or possible and not), will not allow these unusual, wrong colours on humans in a strait, direct way.

And about creating such color-keys (what it is in the end): I always use the rubber/erser (no idea how the tool is called in English) to get parts of the layer underneath visible again. Works wonderfully when you work on a very large version of your work (to scale it down later on). You are able to scale the tip from "endless" to only one pixel, choose the softnes of the edges from hard to very soft and as you work in little steps, you will be easily able to correct mistakes in going back one step (undo the last step, or so ...).

Hope, despite my non-special-English it helped a bit.

I am impressed, Amelia. Very well done... YS... John.

I'm afraid that I prefer the original dear LGM ~ I must be a stick in the mud xxx

Well created, Amelia.

Amelia, you certainly took the challenge a lot further than I did. Bravo to you for your determination in getting outside your comfort level on this one. I think you did well and I agree your grandson is much more handsome prior to inversion. I like how the inversion worked with the tones/shading though and a crop with just the gentleman on the right would give you a totally different presentation. :)

What a stunning processing Amelia...never saw this before!
The young man has a happy smile...that´s wonderful ;)
Enjoy your sunday!

I like it Amelia, everyone can make his own story with an image like this

Great work. He really pops out.

Well Done !!

I have used Photoshop on a daily basis for years and I am always amazed by it. Most of what I have learned I have done so simply by working blind and trying things.

very creative, those 2 look like they are having a great time.

Love the colours in the total inversion

Wow, you really did this the hard way! I haven't yet managed the lasso tool nor working with layers...
Leaving your grandson uninverted really works so much better than the man from Mars-look;-)

The man from Mars is Granddad. :-))))

a strange and surreal result here . . .

like it, like two different dimensions

Really well done!

I prefer the original Amelia, but at least you learned something new from the challenge and I love your final comment about never trusting a digital photograph ever again! ;)

ein * für Deine Arbeit mit Photoshop, liebe Amelia, es ist nicht einfach, sauber freizustellen, das weiß ich ;-);
den kleinen Jungen habe ich sofort in mein Herz geschlossen!

Wow, that is amazing, Amelia!