Quite a challenge this week!

This little guy was extremely underexposed.  This happens to me all the time, especially when I forget to check my settings when moving from outside to indoors. Color fixing is tough when something is this underexposed.  But I did my best.

Here are my plays:

In CS4 I opened a curves adjustment layer.  I touched the white eye dropper tool on the white stripe on his t-shirt.  And the black eye dropped sampled his eyeball.

Then I sampled 4 spots on his skin and did some color adjustments in curves until he read and looked better.

Tweaked colors in color balance adjustment level

Adjusted contrast with curves

Filtered for noise reduction until it looked smoother

‘Color’ edit I used MZ XP colorful action

‘B&W’ edit I used The Secret Actions Black and White complex and pretty

‘Flare’ edit I used two different flare textures from Patti Brown’s Kaleidoscope collection

That’s it!

To see more edits, head on over to iheartfaces.

Have a fantastic weekend!