A friend of mine, Annie, over at Mama Dweeb asked me to edit this photo of her adorable daughter. This is her at 6 weeks old. Isn’t she precious? By the way if you have a photo you would like me to edit you can email it to me [email protected]. I would love the challenge.
Here is the SOOC:
First I opened in ACR in Photoshop Elements. If you don’t have the actually RAW file you can click on Open As then choose the RAW file.
Here are my adjustments
This is the picture just after those couple adjustments
After that I ran Coffee Shop’s Baby Powder Room. They have good instructions on their site, but this is what I did.
I used the Lighten Skin at 20% for the darker spots of her sweet face. Then I used the Smooth Skin at 10% and went over her face. Then used the eye define at 100% and went over her eyes. Now on Carsyn’s I will use the Red Skin Removal tool on his chapped cheek, but I didn’t have to do that on this photo.
Then cropped and sharpened for the web. For that I created a duplicate layer {ctrl+j} and went to enhance unsharp mask my amount was 125, radius 1 and threshold 3. So this would be my clean edit.
Here is my black and white. I used Pioneer Woman’s Black & White Beauty Action. I have tried to create my own black and white, but I really love the way hers looks.
Then here is a fun edit using Coffee Shops Vintage Honey. I usually adjust the layers to my liking.
Another favorite action of mine is Pioneer Woman’s Seventies.
What do you think? Which one do you like better? If you have any questions feel free to ask and I will try and put a post together to answer your questions. Thanks!
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