I've been posting my fix its over at
smugmug, but a few of you have asked me photoshop questions so I figured I'd go ahead and post this here.
This weeks
I heart faces fix it Friday is a picture of a sweet, but sad looking little girl. Anyone who follows me on
twitter may have seen that my stylus died on me this week. I *need* my stylus to do photoshop. Otherwise it's like trying to skip rope without the rope, or trying to eat without a mouth, or trying to do a road trip without a car, or trying to have breakfast without oatmeal, or trying to socialize without talking about your kids, or kids tv or anything kid related. You get the picture.
I have a new stylus on the way, thanks to my wonderful, compassionate, hard working husband. (sucking up? me? no way) And I was going to skip on this week's fix it Friday, since my hands are so naked today. But this little girl looked so sad.
So I rolled my fingers, clumsily all over the tracker pad thingy on my laptop and made a fix on the photo. Because she needed a little happiness, a little sharpness and a bit of a color fix.
My process was basically:
- liquify tool to her mouth and brows, to make her happier
- paint, sharpen, dodge and burn on her eyes
- curves for brightness, contrast and color
- curves and mask for lighting fix
- alien skin bokeh for soft blur around edges
- high pass sharpen over whole image
And that was it. Here's the b4 and after.
Check out the other fix its
here
