~Garden Girl~

Like I said before, I have had a lot of fun editing this session. We had so many poses to choose from. I got to play around a lot with different textures, background enhancments and all sorts of fun color enhancments and black and white conversions. We took a few shots in this backyard garden and I love how the sun hits the lens right at her head. Super cool!!

Fix It Friday Week 13 @ I ♥ Faces

Fix it Friday again...yay!

This week we are fixing the following picture....the first thing I noticed was the bright background and underexposed subject. I thought of using PW's action to "dim the lights" and it worked beautifully. My edits are below...I tried not to do a bunch this week, but as I have said before, once I get started, I just don't want to stop! :)

ORIGINAL

Cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the background, lightened the girl and ran 70's Action

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Same as above, but converted to black and white.

Same as above, but layered the black and white over the color, then used a layer mask to remove the b&w from the tulips.

Color Enhancing

Just playing with some fun color options in Photoshop....for the black and white one I layered it over a colored version and then "erased" the black and white from the areas that I wanted to remain red. I am not sure which version I like the most...

"Urban Acid" (I call it faded jeans)

Natural Color Black and White w/Color Enhancement