Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve participated in a Fix-it Friday! I decided that I need a little ‘me time’ before I hit my pharmacology books hard this weekend! Hopefully I can start to do these more often since I really enjoy being able to edit other peoples pictures!!
Here is the before. Great potential, just a bit blue, and a bit dark
And here’s my fix –
I had originally thought that I’d get rid of the slight sunflare at the top of the head. But after playing with it for a while, I decided to just Vamp up that Flare! I love getting that flare in my images, but it was fun to be able to fake it too!
Steps:
1. Curves adjustment to brighten up the image
2. Ran Skin Cast Blast by MCP to get rid of the blue cast
3. Child’s Play Warm Up because I like sunflare images to be nice and cozy
4. Slight dodge and sharpen on the eyes, as well as lighten on the left eye.
5. Filter-Render-Lensflare on a separate layer. I believe I did the 30mm at 110%
6. Ran my sponge tool around the flare at about 15%
7. Sharpened for web
6 Comments
I love your edit!
I love how you brightened it up and highlighted the face. Your edit makes the photo come alive.
I love your edit! You got the skin tone just right and the eyes are stunning.
Cool edit!!!
How do you put the sunflare on a seperate layer?
Laura, I just duplicated the image and ran the flare on the top image so that I could reduce the opacity some. Hope that helps!