Fix It Friday---I Heart Faces

Original

My Fix #1 How I fixed it:

1.Layer>Duplicate Layer

2.Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Brightness/Contrast

( I played around with the controls till I was happy with how she looked)

3.Layer>Adjustment Layer>Levels

(Ibrought the black slider on the left down a bit to clear out the fuzziness)

4.Layer>New Adjustment layer>Brightness/Contrast

(again, played around with the controls)

5.Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation

(do you see a patern developing??? PLAY WITH THE CONTROLS!)

6.Lastly,I grabbed the sponge tool and lightly saturated her lips to bring out the pretty pink in them.)

7. Flatten and save!

My Fix #2

How I fixed it:

1.Duplicate Layer

2.Filter>Adjustments>Gradient Map>Black and White

3.Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Bright/Contrast

Set Bright to 60

Contrast to 9

4. Grab the Quick Selection tool-click on both iris'
5.Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Bright/Contrast

Bright-49

Contrast- negative 11

6. Layer> New Adjustment Layer>Levels

Black Level-22

Middle-1.5

White-238

7.Image>Rotate>Flip horizantal

8.Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Shadow/Highlights

Light Shadows-56%

Dark highlights-24%
Midtone Contrast-33%

9. Select sponge tool set to 20 px

Mode-saturate

(darkened eyelashes and iris' a bit)

10. Layer>Flatten Image

11. SAVE!