Friday, May 14, 2010

i heart faces: Fix-It Friday #54

It's another Fix-It Friday at iheartfaces!!

This week's photo was submitted by Christina from 3 Sweet P's. She wrote: "This is a photo of my 2 year-old Parker. I am bothered by the harsh shadow on his face and the washed out colors of the photo. His eyes are a beautiful blue and you just can't see that. I would love to see what you guys can come up with!"
original picture:

I opened the picture up in Camera Raw in CS5. I adjusted the white balance slightly and added a bit of black then moved into photoshop. In photoshop I cloned the harsh shadow out of his face and the little red marks on the other side of his face. I did a slight crop and also ran a duplicate layer in multiply mode, masking in only his eyes and bright parts of his hair and then reducing the opacity until I was happy with it. Then I ran AMPs "clean it up" action over it and tweaked pretty well every layer until I was happy. I flattened the image then did a duplicate layer and ran a high pass filter over it, put it on overlay mode and masked in only certain areas of his face and eyes that I wanted to sharpen and highlight a bit. 

And here is the basic edit I then had:

I then ran AMPs 1978 action (from her new action set being released soon!) over the edit:

and added a texture to this edit:

and finally ran AMPs BW Sunset over the picture 
as well as her haze action where I could pick out which hazes and tints from the different layers I wanted to turn on:

Fix-It Fridays are always so much fun!!
Be sure to check out the other fixes at iheartfaces!

4 comments:

  1. Great job, as always Cheryle! Love them!

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  2. Love it! I'm glad to see someone else get rid of the "blown out" area too, seeing as that was the worst part of the photo!!! Great job!

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  3. A wonderful collection of edits....I love the last one!! xo

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  4. I really like your initial basic edit best. Of course, that is just my opinion, but nice work on all of them.

    I know now, that I really need to get better photo editing software. I can see the endless amounts of possibilities now that I've been visiting several other blogs like this.

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