Before | After easiest. fix-it. ever. how? Boom. Awesomesauce. Image © 2010 Keli Hoskins, used with permission http://iheartfaces.com Fix-it Friday...
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Original is top, basic edit second, edit with texture third. I didn’t think this worked well as a black-&-white, so I didn’t save that conversion. Also, the texture I used warmed it up quite a bit (which I could remedy but actually liked so I left it) from my basic edit. Sorry no tricks this week; I am leaving for the weekend in a couple of hours and haven’t packed a single...
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Wow. I had an incredibly difficult time with this one. The JPEG file was unsalvageable, despite reading that this was exposed for his face. Thankfully, I went back and noticed the RAW file had been added. Photoshop would not recognize that darn RAW file no matter what I did (PS, Bridge, you name it) though as a last ditch attempt, I was able to finally – yes, on Saturday – get it open in Lightroom. I admit. I hit AUTO adjust. Yep, I did. I was so sick of this file by the time I finally got it to open that I didn’t want to mess with it. After hitting auto, I...
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I did some serious yet subtle retouching work on this one tonight. I liquefied her eyes (gosh that sounds awful!) to pull her right eye in a wee bit to give her eyes matching eye contact, touched up her under-eye area, cloned out the blue in the upper right corner, and balanced out her arms by adding one in where it appears to be missing and giving her slightly more elbow on the other. I then matched the colors of her arms to her face, dropped the highlights a wee tad to bring back some detail in her skin texture and added a slight glow to her cheeks. I really wanted her eyes to be...
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It’s time for another fix-it Friday! I’m blogging this at almost 3 AM, so no run-through today, though I might hop on later in the day and put a few adjustments on this blog post. For now, enjoy the images. The original is above and my edits below. Okay, I’ve gotten oh, about 4 hours of sleep. One how-to: See that orange construction barrier up on the original? Yeah, over on the left about halfway down. You can’t miss it. I got *most* of it (okay, I missed a wee bit) adjusted. I selected a small portion of the orangey part with the lasso tool (I keep...
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I am not a fan of tilty photography; in general it makes me queasy when there is a horizon in the photo that is not horizontal. I immediately knew I wanted to correct the tilt. The easiest way to do this in PS is to grab the ruler tool and drag-n-drop what should be horizontal or vertical. Then select Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary to get PS to rotate the image to the nearest 90ºs. Then I cropped and clone-stamped to recreate the vegetation that was now “missing” to make the picture complete. After a fair bit of clean-up, I took out the bruises on the girl’s legs. ...
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