I ♥ Faces Friends

This week at I ♥ Faces , the theme is Friends! I just love this picture of Abby with her friend "K". Be sure to go check out all of the other cool entries!

and here is my adult entry. J and D. OMG this one cracks me up!!

Lil' Miss Sassy

Took the little diva outside for a few shots. She was so much fun. Cracking me up!

I ♥ Faces Fix-It #9 - “Senior Spirit”

What a great photo to play with this week. A beautiful subject. Interesting background. It was fun to play with!
Click here to see all of the fun fixes!

Original:



Brightened and color popped:


Same as above with some color burning:


Black and white with a hint of chocolate:

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Head on over to I ♥ Faces to enter!!

Editing 101 :)

I get lots of questions on what I use to edit, how I get the eyes so clear, how my pictures are so sharp, etc etc. So I'm going to give you a little before and after and explain what I did. K?

alrighty, here we go :)


First I started with a basic snapshot. this was taken indoors with natural light only. It's a bit underexposed, so let's play with it.



Now we have a few things to fix here. It needs a bit of a color pop.

You can barely see her pretty brown eyes. they could sure use a bit of a brightening don't you think

Sheesh, her face is dirty, isn't it?

Hmm, you can see I have Tivo on the tv, don't you? lol

Alrighty, here's my edited photo:

(and what I did: I brightened up the picture a bit.
used my smudge and clone tool to fix that pretty little dirty face.
I dodged the eyes just a little bit. Just enough to pop the color. Don't go overboard, or she'll look like a freak.
I colored and blurred the background so you aren't distracted by the TV.
Then I sharpened. Just a tad. Only enough to bring out the details in the subject. )

Voila!

Here's my finished project.



Pretty huh?

Teehee!!



april fools!!!

:)