FIX-IT-FRIDAY - NO.67- "Woodland Princess"

This weeks ORIGINAL is so sweet. But the colours and contrast are a bit lack-lustre.

It was a pretty easy fix though!

LIGHTROOM 3

At last my LR3 is mine (well my son's actually), no longer on Beta or 30 day Trial ~ but all our own!! :) ~ so of course it was the first place to go with a 'fix-it'. In reality it is always my first stop with all my photos. I think it works with JPEGs like Camera Raw would with a RAW photo and I just LOVE it! Sometimes I hope across to Gimp or PSE to add some 'touches' that I can't in LR3 (being that it doesn't have layering), and that's just what I did today. So...

 #1

• auto-tone, but changed recovery to 57
• auto white balance (I hardly ever like the auto settings, but this was not too bad).
• contrast 31, temp 17, clarity 15, vibrance 6
• Luminance Noise ~ luminance 18, contrast 10, lum' detail 86
• Colour noise ~ detail 83, reduction 11
• Shadows -26, highlights +21
• Wide Edge (faces) sharpening preset
• used iris enhancement brush 
• used a light burn on her forehead
• cropped to 7x5
• red saturation -16, tint +20
• Export (save) and publish to Flickr!

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#2

• created a virtual copy of #1 and convert to B&W
• Brightness 19, contrast 38, recovery 68
• Changed shadow (20) and highlight hue (155) to give the colouring
• Shadow tones -37
• export & publish.

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 #3

• virtual copy #1, rotated to -14.28 then cropped.
• export and pulplish!

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PSE7

#4

• Took #3 into PSE
• Duplicated the base layer and hid it ~ worked on copy layer
• Lasso'd losely around the girl, copied and pasted the selection into a new layer
• used 'high pass' filter on new layer, changed blending to 'soft light' at 30%
• flattened & converted to sRGB profile (not sure why it wasn't already!)
• used CoffeeShop Johnna's Tea Party action (IN LOVE!)
• changed Hazy layer 'Hard Light' @ 17%
• changed contrast layer to 'Soft Light' @ 23%
• flatten and 'Saved for Web'

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#5

• opened original in ACR and tweeked to 90% same settings as in LR3 (doesn't have as many same options though).
• duplicated base layer and hid it. 
• used CoffeeShop Johnna's Tea Party action (again), but pretty much left it alone this time!
• used the CoffeeShop EyeBright action and worked the layers appropriately (when I use this action after duping the base layer I always have to drag my copy layer down to the bottom again before I start 'painting') ~ changed 'bright eyes' layer to 11%
• merged visible layers (base layer still unchanged)
• dup'ed the top layer, lasso'd the girl, and copy pasted her into a new layer.
• high pass filter on girl, changed layer 'overlay' @ 38% ~ merged down.
• duped the layer
• used gradient map 1 layer (black and white) ~ 'soft light' @ 26%
• merged down & duped again
• used 'reduce noise' filter (can't remember settings, but they were mild) ~ set layer @ 40%.
• merged all visible layers and checked I liked the changes against the orignal base layer. :)
• Save for Web

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#6

I thought this would look lovely with a bright pink frame!

• undid the flattening, duped the base, but left visible this time. Created a new empty layer
• cropped new layer bigger than the base (creating empty space), then flooded with a pink picked from her skirt
• dragged pink layer into the middle (moved down), and made another new layer above it.
• used rectangle marquee to select just bigger than the photograph and flooded with a rusty brown colour. deselect & then ctrlT to 7x5 ratio and exactly where I wanted it to frame the picture.
• flatten and save for web.

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I hope you like my edits :)

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