Fix-It-Friday No.34 - Pretty in Pink!

Original.

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This weeks original was pretty lovely without any pp, so it didn't take much to make it stunning. The first thing I noticed were her little bruises on her legs & yellow paint on her arm which, while fitting for any little girl of this age, maybe not so for a flower fairy :D She also had a dark circle around her right eye.

So I fixed those things with a bit of healing, cloning and dodging.

I unsharped masked her eyes to lift them and then...

...I applied 'make wonderful' (a script fu in gimp).

Edit One

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after that I tried to see whether it worked in B&W (again another gimp script).

Then I cropped it and sharpened it in Picnik.

Edit Two

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For the next edit (from edit one) I applied a 'simple duotone' script with a brown base tone.

I sharpened, cropped and rotated in Picnik (I can't find any other program so simple for rotation effects).

Edit Three.

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Continuing to work from edit One I added a little lomo effect (very slight)

Edit Four

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I took edit Four and desaturated it a little;

Edit Five.

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I took edit one into Picnic and played there for a bit...

Cropped.
Applied 'Faded Daguerreotype' (my favourite curve), faded it out and lowered the colour override a touch. Also erased it from her eyes at 70% strength.
I then applied a slightly faded smidge of an s curve to bring out the depth more.
Framed it. (Yummy!!)

Edit Six.

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Back to crop of edit one, I applied the 'Ambrotype' curve (liked it), faded out enough to allow the colours of her outfit to come through a little. Again erased from her eyes at 70% strength.

Edit Seven.

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Lastly I looked at the closest crop I'd made and decided it might look nice with a texture added, so I took it into Paint.net (for a change) and had a go :D

Here is the result;

I added 'brown canvas' (a texture I found on Flickr by Ishkamina, but I can't see it there now!), applied at opacity 120, in colour dodge mode.

I didn't erase it from anywhere as I liked the effect of it :D

Edit Eight.

I hope you had as much fun as I did with this beautiful picture :D

Don't forger to see how everyone else fixed it up over at I ♥ Faces today.