I Heart Faces-Fix It Friday

Original

My Edit

The Process

using Photoshop Elements 2 and a tiny bit of Photoscape

1. Cropped picture close to subject

2.Added a basket texture to background

• Mode set to Overlay, 100% Opacity

3. Selected Eraser tool (with a 75 pixel brush, 100% opacity) and erased around his face and body to remove previously added texture from around his face and body

4.Enhance>Adjust Color>Hue and Saturation

• Yellow-----Saturation ONLY.........+21
• Green-----Saturation ONLY.........+47
• Magentas----Saturation ONLY.....+42

5. Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen Edges

6. Grabbed the Eliptical Marquee Tool and outlined both eyes

7. Select>Feather> 5 pixels>OK

8. Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask

• Amount---500%
• Radius----2 pixels
• threshold---4 levels
• changed Opacity to 18%,blend mode stayed normal

9. I then grabbed the Dodge tool(Range set to Highlights and Exposure set to 50%) and did 3 clicks on the outside whites of his eyes to make the white whiter. I then went down and whitened up his little teeth a bit.

10.Enhance>Adjust Color> Color Variations

• Midtones-Lightened once
• Shadows-Darkened x5
• Highlights-Decreased Red, Green and Blue once

11. Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen Edges

12. I merged and flattened the layers and optimized for the web.

This is where Photoscape comes in.......

I opened the photo up and.....

1.Filter>NoiseReduction>Low

2. I then Clicked on the Bright/Color Tab,then to Curves>Saturation Curve and decreased it a bit.

3. Filter>Film Effect> Cross Process>Low

4. I went back to the Bright/Color Tab and adjusted the following:

• Brighten--19%
• Contrast--+10
• Saturation....-72

5. I then Rotated the picture to -15 degrees

6. Hit the Bloom Tab

• Normal Mode
• Level---30%
• Blur--8.0
• Contrast--100

7. SAVE !!!!