Friday, July 30, 2010

Fix-it-Friday

Every Friday over at I Heart Faces they put up an image that needs some editing and allow readers to download the image and try their hand at editing it. I never get to participate because I'm always at work but today is our firm outing and it doesn't start until noon, so I get to have fun with my first Fix-it-Friday! Yay!

Here is the original image by Michelle Johnson. It's seriously gorgeous to begin with, so not much in terms of clean up to be done. Just a nice clean edit.


I brought it straight into Photoshop Elements and adjusted the levels. Then a hue/saturation adjustment to take care of some of the redness/magenta in her face. A few touch up adjustments using the spot healing tool. Then a brightness/contrast layer to make things pop. I used Coffeeshop EyeBright to brighten up those beautiful blue eyes and whiten up the whites a bit. It felt a little cool still to me so I applied PW's Sunshine action at a low opacity, and finally a soft light vignette. And voila!


For a quick alternative play, I ran PW's Seventies action and adjusted the opacity to around 30%.

Finally, a black and white version.

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Can't decide which way I like it better. What do you think?

Thanks to Michelle Johnson and I Heart Faces for letting me play!




3 comments:

Melissa said...

I love her skin tone in the one with the seventies action. I use PW's seventies action all the time. It's one of my favorites! Great job!

Tiffany said...

I love the black and white edit!

Rachelle said...

I am pretty boring, so I like the first edit ;-)