I Heart Faces--Fix It Friday

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What a cuuute photo! I personally left the red around her mouth becuase it shows she actually eating {and loving} the lollipop!!

Anyways---heres a step by step of how I got my edit:

1. File>Open As> Camera Raw>Open Image

2.Exposure set to-0.05

    Blacks, 4

   Brightness, +1

   Contrast, +6

   Clarity, +9

3. Open Image in PSE 8

4. Run Coffeeshop's Sunny Pop Action {made no changes}

5.  Merge

6. Run Coffeeshop's baby Powder Room action

     *Smooth Skin layer-used soft, white 65 px brush and smoothed skin on face. Set Opacity to 80%

       *Lighten Skin Layer-lightened skin under eyes. Set opacity to 30 %

       *Eye define layer- define eyes and lollipop

7. Merge

8. Zoom in {100%} on eyes. Grab lasso tool and select the brown part of the eyes.

9. Layer> New Adjustment layer> Brightness/contrast

     * Brightness, 90

      * Contrast, -50

10. Merge

11.Zoom out to 50%

12. Run Paint the Moon's Vanilla Pop Action

13. Merge

14. Enhance>Unsharp Mask

     * Amount,98%

      * Radius, 6.1 pixels

      * Threshold, 147 levels.

15. SAVE!

Hope you enjoyed the process! I must admit I LOVE PSE!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and head on over to I Heart Faces to check out some more takes on this great photo!