Retouching the image

Well, once we had picked the best shot we took it in to Adobe Photoshop and we retouched it to make it look more dynamic. We edged the dark further in to the face and we cleaned up a few things: made the eyes whiter, lost some of the stray hair, put more colour in to the hand, and so on.

We blended the shadows around the face in to a solid black and resized the whole image so that the face would sit well within the poster format.

Then I found some great and wierd glasses in a picture on the web and I cut out the glasses from the rest of the picture and scaled them to fit Lima's face. I then just slightly blurred them to make them look like they were really in the original picture.

Just a few extra tweaks to get all the colours looking good and to add a filter or two and we were there - some hours later!!!

Very happy with the result though.

Here is a picture of Lima after retouching and before the glasses and one with the glasses on.