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!

When we were just married and planning a family, my husband and I had visions of Saturdays spent at the ball field watching our little ones running after the ball, passing, shooting, and scoring goals.

Now, 14 years later, our first 3 kids have, at one time or another, played soccer.

And each one of them, in turn, discovered each individual blade of grass, or butterfly fluttering by, or interesting cloud formation, to be much more fascinating than the game of soccer.

This year it’s Will’s turn.

We had high hopes for him, being our last kid and all.  We were prepared for a little 5 year-old aggression.  Maybe a little fire!

Last Saturday was his first ‘official’ game.

Guess what I caught him doing between plays…

Contemplating…

the blades of grass.

sighhhh….

Go on over to iheartfaces and check out the other contemplative photos this week.

HAPPY MONDAY