FIX-IT-FRIDAY - NO.58- "S.KELLER"

This weeks Original was lovely, but maybe lacking some pizzaz! 

I decided I would edit in three programs this week, just for fun!

SO....

LIGHTROOM 3 beta ~ Edit One

• auto tone
• photo-flavors preset ~ 'Remember When' 
• Brightness slightly adjusted
• photo-flavors preset 'square vignetter J' ~ amount -100, midpoint 64, roundness -100, feather 100

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GIMP ~ Edit Two

• opened in Gimp 2.6.7
• adjusted brightness and contrast using curves (kind of a wide n shape!)
• Using 'colour balance' ~ I applied preset #4 and turned the red down to taste.
• used a high-pass sharpening and reduced the opacity to make it more subtle
• selected eyes and made a layer mask (each person on a seperate layer mask) ~adjusted the brightness and contrast of them
• dodged the shadows very lightly under her son's eyes.
• flatten and save.

(remember EVERYTHING I do, I do on a duplicate layer, so that it is easy to UNdo should I choose to :D)

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GIMP ~ Edit Three

• working staight from above I simply applied LASM's Lab WOW script and adjusted the layers to taste
• Changed the effect to 'grain merge' and reduced the opacity.
• flattened and saved.

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GIMP ~ edit Four

• working from edit two
• applied a 'split tone' effect of dark grey and mid blue and adjusted the layers to taste
• applied a 'stroke' of 40, overlayed and merged with layer (to create subtle framing).
• flatten & save

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PSE7 ~ edit Five

• opened original in CameraRaw and adjusted exposure, recovery (up to 100%!),  brightness, contrast, sharpness (a little), clarity, changed white balance to 'auto' (which really warmed it nicely), noise reduced very slightly, ~ all until it looked bright and warm!
• opened image in PSE
• applied CoffeeShop Johnna's Tea Party (my favourite action) and adjusted; Hazy to 7%, with Contrast to 23%
• adjusted the sharpness of the whole image on duplicate layer (75%, radius 0.8, uncheck more refined, use remove lens blur)
• changed sharpened layer to soft light and reduced opacity
• applied 'eye bright' action and used layers to enhance the eyes (painting on the masks with white soft brush) and reduced opacity to look natural.
• Flattened & Saved for the web.

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I'm pleased with all my edits this week and pleased that I can use other programs when my LR3 beta runs out this month :(

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