In Daddy's Hands

I have decided to enter this photo into the weekly photo challenge over at I♥Faces. This week, week eight, the challenge is “Hands-on Fun.” I took this photo of my husband and our youngest child earlier today. This is the first time I have ever entered one of the photo challenges over there because the photos are usually required to have faces in them. The only faces I ever get to photograph are the cute faces of my family & we all know how I don’t share those publicly. After seeing what was happening over at I♥Faces though, and how they switched it up a bit for this week, I felt that now would be perfect timing for me to enter and have some fun! I need to share my photos more often and maybe this will help lead me to doing so. So, here’s to doing some new things this year 

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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.

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Fix it Friday

•Original



•Edit 1

*Edited in ACR:
-picture was underexposed, so I messed with exposure and added some fill light.
-added a little bit of contrast and clarity
-upped the saturation and vibrance a tiny bit
-did a little bit of noise reduction
*Edited in PSCS3:
-cropped
-slight skin color cast fix
-smoothed skin
-brightened eyes
-removed a few stray hairs from shoulder
-sharpened
-added white frame with black drop shadow



•Edit 2

-vintage



•Edit 3

-added Polaroid frame and changed color


•Edit 4

-added texture, applied pw action, blurred & changed color



Photo Credit: Jennifer of Confessions of a Working Mom!

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I♥Faces

•Original



•My Edit


My steps:
Tilted
Cropped
Ran an action I wrote to smooth skin
Added a Curves adjustment layer
Dodged
Burned
Added highlights
Added shadows
Did a simple eye pop
Sharpened
Added frame

Photo Credit: Katrina of Rambunctious Joy!

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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}