Love Your Shot ... Favorite Faces

This week, over on Love That Shot, is a new contest with the theme of 'Your Favorite Faces'. There are some pretty amazing entries over there, all good enough to win this week's prize of a $100 gift card to Florabella's Actions and Textures! I certainly wouldn't want to be Angie or, Amy, the guest judges from I Heart Faces, trying to pick the winner of this one!!  Florabella is definitely one of my favorites when it comes to enhancing any image!

Here is my 'favorite face' photo for this theme ... my adorable niece, Rylie.  She's such a joy to be around, always brings a smile to my face, and so fun to capture with all her expressive moods. She also has the prettiest blond curls, and I love catching them in the natural sunlight. I extracted all color in this image, added a taupe layer, tweaked the brightness, and contrast, along with adding a slight diffused glow, to give her somewhat of a halo ... all serves to give it a soft and dreamy feel.  Currently my editing program is PSE7, but, I am hoping to upgrade soon.  You just have to head on over to Love That Shot, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check out all the fantastic faces ... just click on their button below!

Fix it Friday #73

It's Fix-it-Friday, again ... and, I'm one day late! 

Check out more edits by clicking on this button:

Once there, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page,
and click on any one, or more, of the links,
and if so inclined, join in with us ... it's great practice!

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This week's image comes from Keli Hoskins.
This adorable little girl had such a cute expression on her face,

and the prettiest eyes!

I enjoyed playing around with this, and, making a few changes to the original.
I used PSE7, which, I might add, I am still learning about.

. original .

On the first, edit, below, I adjusted the levels, contrast, and colors, changing those up a bit ...
layered it with a hint of green using the photo filter ...
notice the flip-flops are now green.
Then I brightened up her eyes to make them pop, and added a light vignette.

Fix #1

On the second edit below, I stripped it of color, overlayed it with a solid taupe color, 

adjusting the opacity, brightness, and contrast, darkening the upper left hand corner, 

finally, adding a little lens flair in the upper right hand corner, dialing the opacity back about half way.

Fix #2

On the third, and final, edit ... I did basically the same as what I did to #2, 

only adding a texture, then masking it off of her. 

I then adjusted the brightness, and contrast a bit more before adding a light vignette.  

Not too sure about this one. Would love your thoughts on these! 

I need to improve on explaining all of my steps! =\

Until next week ... Happy October!
Ciao'

Fix #3

Fix-It-Friday #71 - Too Much Time with a Truck and Textures!

Yep, another edition of Fix-It-Friday is happening now, over on I Heart Faces, and this weeks photo is brought to you by our very own Angie Arthur ... this image being from a senior session. I have to say that Angie did an excellent job on this one ... the composition is fabulous!  Other than bringing color back into the sky, there wasn't much to do on improving it, so I just had fun trying out some different textures, which I got from Shadow House Creations.  (You can go absolutely crazy over there, downloading ones you like ... not to mention all the time you can spend just playing around with them!)

Now, back to these edits ... as you'll see, I didn't have much to do tonight, so needless to say, I probably spent a bit too much time working up all 7 of these! I had to stop myself, or I would have had who knows how many!  Can anyone relate?! Lol!!  Anyway, it was a relaxed evening, and I had fun!  The first step to the original was to adjust color and contrast ... next step was to layer on one of those delicious textures, masking it off of some of the areas, and again working with the colors, contrast, and levels.  This is where I spent most of my time on each one.  I also added a vignette, finally converting one into a black and white image.

You could do so much with an edit.  The possibilities are endless!  I realize these instructions are not quite as detailed as most are, but, I'm still learning how to use all the features of PSE7, and I seriously got a bit lost working on all of these tonight!  I would love your opinions though, and if you have a favorite, do let me know! :)  Scroll down below, click the button to see other creative Fix-it-Friday edits!  I'm headed over that way, myself! I'm anxious to see what others have done with this! 

Hope you all have a blessed weekend ... the weather here is absolutely beautiful!
Blessings - Deborah

^ Original ^

Image By: Angie Arthur Photography

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Click the link below to I Heart Faces, and, see more Fix-It-Friday edits of this image. :)