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Couldn't pass up trying the Fix-it Friday this week.
![Fix it Friday 2010 03 12](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2713/4426673513_43b47aab42_o.jpg)
The photo was pretty underexposed so I did open it in Camera Raw and adjusted exposure. This revealed a bit of noise, so I ran the photo thru my community Noiseware (free for PC users) version just to clean it up a bit.
In CS3
* I cropped the photo, tilting it a bit and bringing it in tighter.
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* I added a new layer and cloned the skin under her eyes to brighten the dark circles
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* I did 3 different level adjustment layers with masks to correct the exposure on the little girl 1)her overall 2)around her forehead and eyes 3)and her arms
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* I did 3 different hue/saturation layers and 1)masked her shirt popping the pinks a bit, 2) masked her lips, just giving them a hint of more color and 3)masked only a portion of the pinball game so we could more easily see what she was studying
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* Then I did an overall color balance layer to warm the photo
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* Then I masked just her face and did a curves adjustment to warm her up a bit more by dropping the cyans and raising the yellows just a little.
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*then I did one final curves adjustment to lighten the overall photo, masking back the background to minimize its distraction.
I find it so amazing that its hard to see the little changes in each step, but the overall effect is such a big difference from the original.
This is always good practice for snapshots I sometimes get to include in my photo card work.
off to check out other fix-its and how some of the contributor's achieved their fixes - you can see more here
4 comments:
Great edit!
Oh - masking the shirt to pop the pinks is such a good idea! I like what you've done.
Here's what I did.
Wow Sarah, that's fantastic work!
Great job! I love the pink in the shirt and the noise, or lack of, looks great!
Here's mine http://mothertobee.blogspot.com/2010/03/fix-it-friday-47.html
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