BTW, as a laymen, I can't tell a bit of difference between those pics...
Most people can't tell in a side-by-side comparison, but in the final piece, someone would look at it and know that something was weird. That or they'd look at it and say, "damn, thats good looking." It's a lot of color correction, removal of dirt, grime and other stuff. The original pics had a whole lot of JPEG compression and some a bit out of focus. Now that I am looking at the pics on a monitor that
isn't color corrected, they look even closer in color. The biggest thing that you can notice is the red removal in the grays and whites.
Quick rundown:
Beckett - lightened shadow on face, dip can removal, color correction
Jeter - head replacement, color correction, dirt removal
Wright - changed jersey to black (logos and lettering were changed as well), fix mouth so his tongue isn't sticking out, color correction
Peavy - Removed shadow on face, color correction and dirt removal.
nice dip can removal, but did you ever make jeter look goofy.
why are you editing mlb photos? you work for a baseball card company or something?
I work for TBS. Getting all the stuff together for the pre-season advertisements. Almost all Turner Sports, TBS, TNT or TCM print materials cross my desk.
That Jeter head was from another shot of him running. The original head has some bad compression noise so the boss wanted me to use the head that is on there now.