I was debating participating this week since I have plenty of my own editing to be working on but when I saw this cutie and an easy way to "fix-it", I decided to go for it. I worked in Photoshop CS2 and just spent a few minutes doing a couple of easy steps...
I started by correcting a couple of the imperfections on her face. Then I adjusted the levels to get the white's white. This was the biggest problem with this image. A common issue when shooting in Auto since the camera assumes the colors should average "gray". In a scene with a lot of white, the camera gets confused and just converts it to gray. Anyway, boosting the levels mad a big difference.
I then flattened the layers and then ran the Coffeeshop Perfect Portrait Action. I turned off a lot of the options but I did run the skin smoothing and the eye defining since the girls eyes looked quite dark and flat. Also I added a slight warming to her face.
That was it. I liked the crop so I left it. Nothing too exciting but that's how I like my end results...real, but better. :-)
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Really like your photo edit!! I always love to see how you can get a dark photo so bright and sparkling with the programms!! You edited it so great!!
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Beautiful editing, the result is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love the edit.
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