My first edit

31 October 2010

Original photo SOOC
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I used the SOOC shot for this one. Nothing like making things a bit more difficult for myself right from the start, huh?  Here are the steps I used to get from beginning to the end:

  1. Applied the PS Auto Tone and Auto Color.
  2. Applied a Photo Filter to neutralize the red tone.
  3. Copied mouth/teeth to their own layer and used Hue/Saturation to lower yellow levels.
  4. Ran CoffeeShop Perfect Portrait action and used the SoftSkin, Sharpen, Eye Define, Vivid Color (to eyes), lightly dodged under eye circles and iris.  Burned outer rim of iris and along lashline.  Applied Vignette and B&W.  Lowered opacity on B&W to 21 percent.
  5. Added Entropy 4 texture from ShadowHouse Creations, blended with Soft Light, and masked out areas of texture over skin.

3 comments :

Crystal said...

Cute! Nice job on the play!

Lisa said...

I like how the dark edges bring the focus to her face! Great job for your first try!

Amanda Padgett said...

You did a GREAT job for your first time!! I love the texture you used.

The cc I have for you is that she is a bit too cool and maybe a tad dark. Some of the warmth from the sun did need to get neutralized, but now she's tool cool, has too much blue in her skin tone. Trust me, it is something that much more experienced editors struggle with.

Really, you did FANTASTIC!! Wish my first editing tries had gone that well! LOL

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