FIX-IT-FRIDAY - NO.40 - "Birthday Boy!"

ORIGINAL

A little twiddling in Lightroom and this is it...

really not much to 'fix' here - it was a fantastic shot to begin with :D

FIX ONE

crop, auto tone, punch, portrait sharpen,

'cooled' very slightly,

touch of increase exposure, touch of increase contrast, touch of lower brightness,

touch of increase clarity,

lowered the saturation and increased the luminosity of the red.

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FIX TWO

preset aged photo, auto tone, punch, portrait sharpen

increase contrast, decrease brightness, increase exposure

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FIX THREE

preset antique light, auto tone, punch, portrait sharpen

increase contrast, decrease brightness, increase exposure.

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FIX FOUR

Decided this had been TOOO easy!!

So played a little bit with the background for this one using the masking in LR;

crop, auto tone, punch, portrait sharpen,cooled very slightly,

touch of increase exposure, touch of increase contrast, touch of lower brightness,

touch of increase clarity,

lowered the saturation and increased the luminosity of the red & did the same for the orange.

Selected all the background (except for the coloured bokeh spots)

decreased the exposure, the brightness and the saturation slightly.

I also decreased the clarity and the sharpness, but I increased the contrast.

rotated VERY slightly.

Put noise reduction up to 100 but still disliked the amount of noise, so ran noiseware (SE) over it in portrait settings. :D

I felt this pulled the boy forward more without loosing the laughter of the moment :D

FIX FIVE

>Just because I always like to see what I can do in Gimp - the last one is my Gimp edit from scratch! - and Yes - this is my favourite!! :D

Hope you like!

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