FIX-IT-FRIDAY - NO.80- "Framed Beauties"

Original from HERE.

This original was AWESOME! Seriously, I couldn't find MUCH to fix in all honesty!

I thought...maybe a little too warm (orangey) and dark?

...maybe pull their eyes up a little & ??? sharpen JUST a touch?

...maybe put some sky back?

...maybe try some BW effect?

So that's what I did!

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Basic Edit in LR3

The brush strokes are iris enhancement, sharpening (just around eyes) and teeth whitening (very slightly).

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Edit #2 (into PSE7)

• Placed a sky background, changed to overlay, created layer mask and erased from everything but the sky areas (just realised I should have left the bit of sky inside the frame!)
• Added a blue gradient (layer) to the sky area using a 'smart fix' ~ faded that down significantly.
• Created duplicate of base layer, set it to 'screen', created layer mask and erased lightly from inside the frame and their hands and fully from the background & sky. This lightened them and the frame itself really nicely.
• Flattened everything and saved.
• Then back in LR3 I added a very slight vignette.

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Fix #3 (LR3)

From basic edit (duplicate) used WOW-antique 09 + auto tone! LIKED!

That's it for today folks. Hope you like :-)

PLEASE comment! :D

Hoping (SO HARD) for my baby to arrive this weekend ~ he's now almost a week late!

When you're done here if you want to have a go yourself, download the original, do your thing and then link up to FIX-IT-FRIDAY. 

(don't forget to read the rules though!)