https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=3300&p=41383#p41383
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Endosphere
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 07:43 AM

Re: Postwork Layer Fun
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That's an interesting experiment.  All three of the composites brought out various aspects of the car, but none of them did much for the girl (with the exception of her hair, which looks better in all three).  Prior to adding the background, if we were just talking about the composites as stand-alone images I like MiyukiChallenger-01a3 best.  It's extremely bright, but would look pretty good if you added a pure yellow layer for color adjustment and a grey layer for brightness adjustment.

Was there some specific objective you were aiming for (other than experimentation) in choosing the toon style to overlay onto the original image?  I'm not sure what look you were trying for here.

Since this is a discussion I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of grabbing your original image MiyukiChallenger-01 and spent about five minutes throwing some layers over it.  In this example, all the layers (settings listed in the top right corner) are simple duplicates of the original image except the multiply layer (which was just a blank yellow fill), the Hue layer (which contained only a mask of the girl) and the top layer, which was the original image desaturated to greyscale.  In the original image, the color saturation of the girl's skin is very low, which makes adjusting it difficult.  If I spent more time on it and if I knew what you were looking in particular to examine with your experiment I'm sure something much more interesting could be done here.

The last image you posted with the background added is starting to look pretty good, and regardless of where you go from there will be pretty nice in itself once you erase the smudges around the girl.