before/after

Before & After

•SOOC




↑ Boring, huh?


•After




↑ Much better, in my opinion!

Fix-it Friday #27

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•Original



Photo credit to Awdrey of Sweet Art by Awdrey.


•My Color Edit



ACR:
-exposure
-recovery
-fill light
-blacks
-contrast
-clarity
-noise
CS3:
-cropped
-color correct
-curves
-brightened eyes
-smoothed skin
-retouched around his mouth
-dodged/burned
-boosted color
-resized
-sharpened


•My 'Fun Play' Edit





•My Chocolate B/W Edit

Fix it Friday #26

•Original





•Edit 1



Straightened
Cropped
Edited color & removed slight color casts
Sharpened eyes
Smoothed skin
Sharpened


•Edit 2



Softer edit of version one


•Edit 3



A sort of vintage effect


Photo credit to Jaclyn of The Polhamus Family blog.

Fix it Friday #25

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•Original




•My Color Edit




•My B/W Edit





Photo credit to Alesha from Snapshots of Us.

Fix it Friday #24

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Cropped, color corrected, popped eyes, smoothed skin.


•My Edit




•My Second Edit

Made vintage & added some textures.



Photo credit to Amy of Muddy Boots.

Fix it Friday #23

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•Original



•My Edit {color}


Opened the JPG in ACR to do a few minor adjustments:
-clarity
-white balance
-exposure
-blacks
-recovery

Opened in Photoshop CS3 to finish the editing:
-cropped to bring the focus of the photo on the little boy
-white/gray/black point color correct
-brightened eyes
-softened skin slightly
-small color pop on background & then blurred
-dodge/burn different areas of the photo
-did a little editing to give the whole photo a slightly different look than normal
-sharpened



•My Edit {b/w}


Photoshop CS3:
My color edit, just ran a b/w action and did some dodging/burning.


Photo credit to EL over at Through My Own Lens.

My Clone Job {•before & after•}

The only editing that I've done to this photo so far is cloning.
I'll share the after when I'm completely finished.

Fix it Friday #22

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Original



My first edit



My second edit



My third edit {*new*}



Slight adjustments in ACR:
-white balance, exposure, clarity, fill light


Photoshop CS3:
*1st edit
-Cropped to 8x10
-Curves
-Texture
-B/W layer
-Dodge/Burn
*2nd edit
-First edit with a b/w layer added
*Third edit
-First edit with more texture and an antique action


Photo credit to Vika Jones.


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Some fellow 07.31.09 Friday-Fixer-Upper's:


Head on over to:

AJ's blog Endless Light Creations to see a *truly* beautiful edit on this image!! I just love it so much that I have to link there so others can see how great of a job she did!

I also really like Tiffany's edit here on her June Makes Six blog. She did a wonderful job and it really does look like an old time photo and something you'd see in a 'history of our town' book or something from like the 1800's.

Fix-it-Friday Week 21

•Original



•My edit

-Cropped
-Corrected color cast
-Lightened eyes
-Removed some extra color casts that remained throughout the face
-Sharpened
-Blurred background


•My second edit (all steps added onto my first edit)

-Slight skin smoothing
-Removed blue/cyan from his hair and suit
-Dodged/Burned background and areas of face
-Boosted eyes a tiny bit more


*Photo credit to: Cayle Ngo

Yellow&Green.

•Before


•After

Louisville Zoo • Before & After

iHeartFaces • Fix-It #16

•Original




•My Color Edit

*Opened in ACR to do some editing on:
-exposure
-fill light
-contrast
-clarity
-noise removal
-etc.
*Opened in Photoshop CS3 to do some editing on:
-color adjustment
-more noise removal
-often skin
-brighten eyes
-sharpen
-dodge
-burn
-cropped
-resized
-frame



•My B/W Edit

*Edited color version in Photoshop CS3 by:
-changing color to b/w
-dodge
-burn



Photo Credit to Melanie of The Blogging Mum.

Head on over to iHeartFaces to have a look around!

I ♥ Faces * Fix It Friday

This is the 8th week of 'Fix it Friday' over at the I Heart Faces blog, but only the first one I've ever participated in. One photo a week is submitted and people are allowed to do as they wish to fix it, post it on their blog and then link back. Anybody that knows me knows how much I love playing around with pictures and editing them. So when I found out about this, I just couldn't pass the opportunity by.



--original




--my play (Photoshop CS3)




--& here's a screen shot of the levels after I finished





I am not good with explaining AT ALL, but I will try :)

Just resized to 600px on the long size.

Used Kylie Banks' Photoshop action to crop following the rule of thirds.

Made the eye color pop. Slightly whitened teeth and smoothed skin with actions I wrote myself.

Used the clone tool to slightly lighten the shadows under her eyes.

For the color correct I:
*duplicated the image
*blur → average blur
*ctrl+i
*changed mode to 'color'
*reduced opacity to about 9%

To sharpen, I used 'Boutwell Magic Glasses' from Totally Rad Actions & 'Sharpen THIS' from The Pioneer Woman.

I then added a frame with an action I wrote myself.




*Photo credit: http://blacksalt.wordpress.com/ {the little girl in the photo is her daughter}