Today’s photo comes from the animator’s wife. I’ve never known the animator’s wife to produce a single photo that needs fixing, this one included. But it was fun to play around with anyway.
Here’s the original:
My workflow (in CS4) went a little something like this:
Levels adjustment to brighten it
Curves color adjustment for skin
Brighten teeth and eyes with soft white brush on 15%
Sharpen the eyes with sharpen filter then masked for just the eyes
burned and dodged her hair and the background a little
added my favorite texture MCP’s Sweet Light on hard light at 50% opacity
Added some fun sun flare brushes
Sharperned the mask
Sharpened for web
Flipped vertically just for fun
After:
I don’t like the B & W nearly as much. She has such beautiful coloring that gets lost in the B &W. But I wanted to practice my black and white conversion so I did.
Go head on over to iheartfaces to see more edits.
I’m washing, packing, and cleaning furiously so I can hop on the plane to Dallas this afternoon to attend this!
All by myself!
I’m so nervous!!! And excited!!!
Have a wonderful weekend!
You are becoming a master! Perfect…you can teach me all your tricks. Have fun this weekend!!!
This is my favorite edit, so far! Great job. I like the flip. It seems to be more pleasing to the eye.
P.S. Love the bokeh!
Gorgeous — how neat to add the flare. I didn’t even know that existed! And I agree, the flip makes a difference.
Really beautiful – have fun in Dallas!
I LOVE this edit!
i love the positioning of your sun flares! perfect additions to the beautiful editing you did!
Love them both! Great idea with the flare!!!!!
Have fun at The Secret Workshop!! Tell us all about it when you get back!!!
Your edits are beautiful! I love the flare, “Wenderful.” as usual.
How cool! Have fun in Dallas. I’m sure you will learn a lot.
Very nice!
Again, wow. Excellent work. Very impressed.