January 27, 2011

From Good To WOW – Week 3 - What says “Good Night” to you?

So with the sleeping pic of Mr Mar Jr did my normal edit using the few tips from the last weeks. Ashley and Jill both suggested I try for a dreamy look. That was hard, I actually like my “dreamy” edit better but I don’t know how dreamy it really is. What one do you like better?

From good to WOW week 3
  1. Crop
  2. White Balance – Eye dropper then adjusted by hand
  3. Curves – 29% & 23%
  4. Colours – Mid tones - +3, 0, +1 – Lighten - -6, +4, –3 – Depth - +7, –4, -7 and set to 50%
  5. Brightness (-3) and Contrast (+4)
  6. Copy Background set to soft light and set to 20%
  7. Copy Background, high pass at 15
  8. New layer, filled with light pink set to 20%
  9. Add layer mask and remove pink from edges with brush set to 50% (blanket, eyes, nose mouth etc.)
  10. Save
  11. Water Mark
  12. Upload
  1. Continue from steep 9
  2. Flatten
  3. Add a brown layer reduce to 53% add layer mask and remove from face
  4. Copy background add blur (don't know what one called in English) set to 68% and remove from face
To see the edits head on over to Ashley Sisk’s blog Ramblings and Photos.