Fix-it-Friday - Dimpled Darling.

How or why do you edit the perfect photo? Just for fun I guess..! This photo was absolultely gorgeous in the original, but it's always fun to see what can be done even with the best of photos :D

Edit one...

• magnetic lasso to sharpen eyes in paint.net
  
• into picnik
  
• slight rotate and slight crop to bring in closer. I didn't want to lose the light on his hair though, just the tufts and the excess background above them!
  
• sharpen whole picture just slightly.
  
• exposure - advanced - check local contrast, but lower the strength. Up the shadows slightly and the highlights a fair bit. Up the overall exposure a touch and leave contrast alone. 
  
• into create tab;
  
• b&w - pick out red on shirt (missed the lion - oops!) and colour of background in original - apply
  
• soften very slightly, but unsoften the eyes.
  
• boost colour - just a touch
  
• apply 1970's with round corners.
  
• vignette very slightly (black)
  
• frame with rounded frame, boarder, rounded frame - deep brown colour.
  
• apply and save.
  

edit two...

The background was blurred enough, but it was distractingly yellow and I was having difficulty bringing the colour down without loosing to much colour elsewhere, so I decided to do something different altogether  - hope you like it :D

• Fix eyes rotation and crop just as above (i was happy with that part!).
  
• Then I sharpened and lightened it slightly.
  
• Took into Paint.net to cut out Mr Dimples (magic wand) and saved as png.
  
• Back into Picnik.
  
• uploaded a background I had and dragged Mr Dimples onto it - and flipped him. 
  
• Fiddled a bit with colours and contrasts (recoloured the background to hide the edging to the cut out better)
  
• Added border
  
• Added text.
  
• Combine 
• Sharpen the whole thing a stack
• save :)
  

BTW - I always do my first edit or two before I look at anyone else's just to see what I can come up with!

Don't forget to take a look at what other folks have

done with this lovely photo this week.