FIX-IT-FRIDAY - NO.52- "Just For Fun!"

Original ~ Angie's beautiful daughter :D

__________________

Fix 1

LIGHTROOM 3 (beta)

• Opened RAW image in LR3(beta) ~ never worked with RAW before :D!!
• Auto tone
• punch
• portrait sharpen
• Crop to 7x5

___________________________

Fix 2

From fix 1

• Set WB to 'flash'
• use adjustment brush to dodge her face a little (increase exposure and brightness just a touch) ~ looking good!

_________________

Fix 3

FROM FIX 1

• apply my own preset 'snow natural'
• dodge her face again a little

I liked the warmth of this, so I took it into PSE7...

_______________________

Fix 4

• ... where I cropped it further 
• cloned out the distractions in the background
• used CoffeeShop 'Web Color Block It' action

____________________

Fix 6

• undid the block-it and duplicated
• applied Coffeeshop 'Johnna's memories of sunshine' action
• adjusted layers like so; contrast down to 36%, orange colour fill layer to 18%, blue colour fill layer to 50%
• flatten image
• applied Coffeeshop 'little perk' action
• Flatten

I really like this :D!!

_________________

Fix 7

FROM FIX 1

• applied 'aged photo' preset in LR3 (beta)
• dodged her face a little as in fix 2

_____________________

Fix 8

FROM FIX 6

• back in LR with edit 6, converted to B&W
• changed to B&W and applied 'high contrast BW' preset 
• auto tone
• increased contrast a little
• decreased brightness a touch
• increased recovery a touch
• lightened darks a very little

_________________________________________

Fix 9

• used fix 8 and just applied 'aged photo' preset
• auto tone
• a few lighting adjustment.

I think THIS is my favourite of all!! :)

_________________________________________

POST SCRIPT

(the kids are in bed now, so I did this..)

(words from 'Road to Nowhere' by Talking Heads)

This was fun and easy this week :D 

Hope you like my work Angie!

To join in and have a go, or to see the handiwork of others, hop on over to Fix-It-Friday.