I haven’t done one of these in a long time.
Original:
I’m loving black and white conversions right now so I thought this would work perfectly.
In CS4 I switched to black and white mode, moved the sliders around until I got a good balance.
A new curves layer, using the hand tool, increased the contrast to taste.
Removed noise twice.
Resized and sharpened for web.
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Before:
My workflow in CS4:
1. Duplicated the image
2. Color corrected using curves
3. Levels adjustment to add contrast
4. Using the patch tool to remove spot on cheek
5. Bumped up the exposure using a curves layer
6. Bumped up saturation and masked back the face
7. hi-passed the eyes
8. Added Blue Lily’s sweet water action masking back here and there for variety
9. Brightened eyes with an inverted curves layer just on the eyes
10. Rotated 90% and flipped vertically
11. Cropped to 5×7
12. Noiseware at 40%
13. Sharpened for web
A great picture to begin with if just a little under exposed.
My edit:
And my black and white conversion with a touch of pink:
Head on over to iheartfaces to see more editing magic.
Happy Friday!
