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I Heart Faces: Fix it Friday #62

Posted in The Digital Darkroom on Friday July 16, 2010 | 14 comments

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.

Fix-It Friday #62

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:

  1. Cropped the image to focus more on the girl and get her out of the center of the photograph.
  2. Ran MCP Actions’ Magical Clarity. I do this as the first step in about 98% of my photos.
  3. Ran PW’s Warmer at about 80% 48% opacity.
  4. Ran MCP Actions’ Magic Midtone Lifter to lighten her skin
  5. Ran MCP Actions’ Magic Recovery to get back some of the color and detail in the grass.
  6. Ran MCP Actions’ Grass is Greener Illusion to get rid of the bare and brown spots in the grass.
  7. Added Kaleidoscope Gallery Collection Golden Sun Glow in a 45% Overlay layer and applied it JUST to her hair to highlight it.
  8. Added Kaleidoscope Gallery Collection Dirty Watercolor 3 in a 93% 53% Soft Light layer and mostly removed the effect from her skin.
  9. 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!

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14 Responses to “I Heart Faces: Fix it Friday #62”

  1. shawntae shawntae says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Love your edit.. Also love the mouse over thing! I’ve never seen that before..very cool.:)
    shawntae´s last blog ..Fix it Friday @ I heart faces againMy ComLuv Profile

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  2. The Wowza The Wowza says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Wow, says The Wowza. Holy jaundice and edge artifacts.

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    • Lynda Lynda says:
      Friday July 16, 2010 at 1:14 pm

      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!

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  3. Stephanie Stephanie says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    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?!

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  4. Amy @ I Heart Faces Amy @ I Heart Faces says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    You did a fantastic job with my little girl! Thanks:-)
    Amy @ I Heart Faces´s last blog ..Fix-It Friday 62 • Photo Editing Fun!My ComLuv Profile

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  5. Raven Mathis @ LMMP Raven Mathis @ LMMP says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    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.
    Raven Mathis @ LMMP´s last blog ..Fix-It-Friday 62 Louisville Kentucky Digital Retouch ArtistMy ComLuv Profile

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  6. Irela Irela says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    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) :)
    Irela´s last blog ..Fix-It Friday 62 • Photo Editing Fun!My ComLuv Profile

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  7. LakeMom LakeMom says:
    Saturday July 17, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    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.
    LakeMom
    http://www.SurvivingMotherhoodwithHumor.com

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