It’s such a fun I Heart Faces Fix-it-Friday this week! We get to edit this photograph of a beautiful and happy little girl taken last week by Amy Locurto.
I feel I’ve been doing too many different edits which all look basically the same, so this week I will stick to just one edit! Here’s what I did:
- Cropped the image to focus more on the girl and get her out of the center of the photograph.
- Ran MCP Actions’ Magical Clarity. I do this as the first step in about 98% of my photos.
- Ran PW’s Warmer at about
80%48% opacity. - Ran MCP Actions’ Magic Midtone Lifter to lighten her skin
- Ran MCP Actions’ Magic Recovery to get back some of the color and detail in the grass.
- Ran MCP Actions’ Grass is Greener Illusion to get rid of the bare and brown spots in the grass.
- Added Kaleidoscope Gallery Collection Golden Sun Glow in a 45% Overlay layer and applied it JUST to her hair to highlight it.
- Added Kaleidoscope Gallery Collection Dirty Watercolor 3 in a
93%53% Soft Light layer and mostly removed the effect from her skin. - Ran MCP Actions’ High Definition Sharpening to finish it off. I do this as the last step to most of my photos. It’s a great action and free over at MCP’s site!
Update! I made some edits based on the feedback of Wowza below. Here’s the first edit he commented on. Hopefully she looks less jaundicey now..
Here’s the final result! Mouseover the image to see it compared to the unedited (but cropped) original!
I can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with! If you’re visiting from I Heart Faces, please check out my earlier articles this week and come back later today for the latest Friday Finds! This is a weekly round-up where you can submit photographs to showcase in the article! Check out past Friday Finds for more information.
- Toy Story 3 Review
- A Busy Week
- Close-Up Macro Lens Filter Set
- Introduction to Actions and Textures
- 5 Ways to Use Textures in Your Photography
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Love your edit.. Also love the mouse over thing! I’ve never seen that before..very cool.:)
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
Thanks so much Shawntae! I picked up the mouseover trick from this entry on Pioneer Woman. Super easy!
ooh thank you for the tip and also for the photo comment! And I will be using that handy tool!:D
Wow, says The Wowza. Holy jaundice and edge artifacts.
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
I love feedback, but you don’t have to be a dick about it, you know?
I’ll tinker around to correct the jaundice-like effect and I’ll Google “edge artifacts” to see what you’re referencing.
Thanks for your comment!
Hi there, just wanted to say your play looks great! You commented on my personal blog about the price of an action being too high and I agree, so I lowered it. Anyways, I hope your day is going great, and ignore that Wow poster… really, don’t people have more things to do then be a jerk to others they don’t know?!
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
Thanks for stopping by Stephanie! I saw you lowered it and I agree that’s a great price point.
You did a fantastic job with my little girl! Thanks:-)
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! She’s beautiful and it is such a fun photo.
Great fix.
Don’t worry about the above comment. There seems to be a trouble maker running around trying to make people feel bad about their efforts today – or apparently they didn’t get the memo that this is all in fun.
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
I’m used to my share of trolls.
Sad that someone feels the need to go around being a butt to people though.
Favorite part of this edit is how you highlighted and made her hair stand out. It was the first thing I noticed. Nice edit. (BTW thanks for stopping by)
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
Thanks so much Irela!
Great photo! I love “playing” with photos. (very much the amateur). Hope to get some pointers from your blog.
Following from SITS 31 DBB. Can’t wait to explore your blog.
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