I really enjoyed ‘fixing’ this photo – although, if I took this I would have been pretty darn happy! To tell you the truth, the only thing I would have had to change was the brightness…the rest was just pure fun!

Here is the orginal photo…

Original Photo

I use Photoshop CS3 and actions from the Divine Sheye Rosemeyer and also from Totally Rad. This is the first time I have played with CS3′s lens flare filter as I am a super sucker for lens flare. While I think it worked ok (I used it in the last Fix), I do love my all-natural camera lens flare…

I have tried to explain what I did for each fix. Sorry there are sooo many but I think you all know by now that I do love to play with actions etc!

Fix-It Number One

Fix-It #1

1. Adjusted Brightness using Curves

2. Cropped left side of photo

3. Lowered saturation using saturation slider in hue/saturation to -22

4. Ran action from Totally Rad called Luxe (hard), tweaked that action

5. Ran action from Totally Rad called Select-O-Pop.

6. Selected pen tool on layer mask of Select-O-Pop, used white brush at 20% opacity and brightened eyes

7. Ran action from Totally Rad called Luxe (soft), tweaked that action

8. Ran action from Eye Candy called Rounded Corners – medium

9. Saved as a .png file to preserve rounded corners transparency

Fix-It #2

1. Cropped Photo heavily on both sides and top

2. Ran Eye Candy Pretty Gritty Action omitted Grit and Punch

3. Dodged both eyes

4. Ran Eye Candy Lemon Fresh Overlay Action and adjusted from 30% opacity to 70% opacity

Fix-It #3

1. Ran Eye Candy Light Switch Action

2. Heavily crop left side of face

3. Crop small amount from top of frame and right side of frame

4. Run Eye Candy Pale & Interesting Action and tweaked it quite a bit

Fix-It #4

1. Cropped to square format

2. Ran Eye Candy Light Switch Action

3. Ran Eye Candy Dandelion Overlay and adjusted opacity to 100%

4. Ran Totally Rad Dirt Lip Texture and adjusted opacity to 45%

5. Dodged both eyes to brighten

6. Burn hair on right side of frame to darken

Fix-It #5

1. Crop left side of frame

2. Ran Totally Rad Troy Action and tweaked

3. Ran Totally Rad Brooklyn B&W Action and tweaked

4. Ran Eye Candy Lemon Fresh Overlay

5. Added Noise

6. Added Lens Flare

And that’s it! I would love to know if you guys like any of these and if you do, which one do you like best? If you don’t like any – well pffft to you! lol lol but I would be happy to know why as well.

Head on over to I heart faces to see loads more fixes!

Cheers

Kate

I had these prepared earlier but couldn’t put them up because I have been completely out of bandwidth! Aaaggh. Will have to swap over to a bigger website plan – so if you lose me for a while, don’t worry, as Arnie Schwarzenegger would say, “I’ll be baacck!”

So here is the most gorgeous little girl, dressed up in period costume. This was a photo from a series that a very talented lady called Vika Jones took. You can see the rest of the fabulous shoot over here.

All images I tweaked a little and even running the actions, I tweaked those too. I think my favourite out of these is the 1st one I did – the heavy crop then using the Eye Candy Actions – Hazey, Vintage Wash & Rounded Corners.

First, here is the original shot…

Don’t forget to head on over to I heart Faces to see some fabulous Fix-its of this same image!