Fix-It Friday #46 - Cute Boy!

I didn't have my Lightroom or my PSE7 when I was working on these last night as I was relegated to the laptop! So, above are my Picnik Premium edits. I might see if I can get a bit of time to have another go later. Obviously with Picnik you can't fiddle with the RAW image, so it's a lot harder to do much with the over exposure. Also I didn't even notice the minor 'blemishes' on his face, as the screen on my laptop gives a lot less definition. All the same I am quite pleased with the results. I expected to come on the PC this morning and see over-yellow images (as is usually the case when I edit on the laptop), but am glad to see they are not too bad at all :D

More fixes of this photo to be seen over at iheartfaces this morning ~ see You there :D !

POST-SCRIPT:

Here are my two PSE7 edits.

• Adjusted in CameraRaw to bring back the over exposed areas mainly,
• Adjusted lighting on seperate layer to warm the image,
• Healed a few little dots and spots on his face,
• Dodged all over his face on a separate layer then blended down,
• Used a light burn and healing tool around his nose to lessen the over exposure there.
• Used Coffeeshop's Perfect Portrait action mostly to soften skin and brighten eyes, but it also added a little pop and pull to the picture.
• Cropped to 5X7

The second edit has Coffeeshop's Johnna's Tea Party action added, with the haze layer turned off. I am in love with this action at the moment!!

I also took some of Julie's tips and painted over the remaining overexposed areas very lightly with colours picked from his face and hair.

I dodged very lightly around his eyes again as they were still looking a bit over shadowed and overly pink around the edges (resulting from the action)

I lassoed his eyes and used 'grants tools ~ curve' to bring them up a bit more and faded the layer down to make the eyes real again :D

I could play longer with this, but I won't today as I think I have done enough already and you might want to visit some other blogs too!! :D