Foto Friday Week 32
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Before and After Edition:
It is not often I get pictures of the babies both looking at me *almost smiling*. I just loved how bright and colorful their eyes were, so I wanted to clean the background up a bit and see if I could save the photo. A punching bag, weight, and fan do not make for good background props. =) I really didn’t expect to get rid of the background completely, I was actually trying to blur it out and darken it a bit. Imagine my surprise when I was able to easily get rid of the background completely.
Before:
After:
After black and white:
For the color edit I used curves to brighten it a bit, soft light at 53% opacity, a little contrast and unsharp mask overall, unsharp mask on the eyes, burn and dodge everywhere, and burn the entire background to black. I used the clone stamp on Shenzie’s strawberry covered shirt and saved in color. I then converted it to black and white and used soft light, selective color, dodge and burn, and curves until I was happy with the conversion.
Not the worlds best photos, but much improved over the original. And of course they are my precious babies so I love it anyway!
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WoW!!! That is amazing!! Don’t you just love Photoshop!! I can’t believe how it changed that picture, nice work!!