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January 25, 2011 By Sarah Halstead

Baby Editing Tutorial

Filed Under: Photography


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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  1. Ang says

    January 28, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Great edits! I really like the clean colors!
  2. Mommy2Four says

    January 28, 2011 at 8:46 am

    I like the b&w best :) very cute
  3. Adeena says

    January 27, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    I love your clean edit, and the B&W! :D Beautiful girl.
  4. Natalie says

    January 27, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    I love your clean edit and the last one with the seventies action! Nice job with this edit!
  5. Charlene says

    January 26, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Thanks for sharing your steps! I really like that last edit.
  6. Amber says

    January 26, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    Sarah, Thanks for the info. regarding RAW and ACR. I have not been using ACR, because I wasn't sure what to do, so this info. was extremely helpful!!!
  7. Carrie Harmsen says

    January 26, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Oh my gosh. I love ALL of them. What a cute pie! Gives me baby fev-ah :) Thanks for the post.
  8. Meg :) says

    January 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    I like the P-Dub Action one. Great edits! :)
  9. Ashley Sisk says

    January 26, 2011 at 10:49 am

    I also love your clean edit and your bw the best!
  10. Lynda says

    January 26, 2011 at 10:17 am

    Great edits! I think I like the clean edit and B&W the best, but the others are great too.
  11. Reading Allowed says

    January 26, 2011 at 5:56 am

    What a sweet shot and edit! I think I like the black and white best but they are all good.
  12. Charmaine says

    January 25, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    Beautiful edits!!! Your clean one is fantastic & I love the other options too.... I may be using your tutorial, as I have a baby / sibling session later this week!
  13. Annie @ Mama Dweeb says

    January 25, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Thank you Sarah - I love it!! I am going to take your tips and do them on other pictures too - I especially love how you brightened her eyes. I have wanted to learn how to make my kid's eyes POP in pictures and never got the hang of it. I am going to check out that coffee shop tutorial and mess around with it. Thanks again!!

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