Friday, February 13, 2009

Okay, this is a new one for me. I am new visitor to the Iheartfaces blog and when I was there today I noticed they have fix-it-friday. You take one of their pictures and use whatever program you use to enhance pictures and see what you come up with. This week they have a picture of a cute little boy. This is what I came up with. The first is the original and then two of mine after that.









The first picture I cropped to put the little guy a little more off center than he was. Then I went in to "create" and did 50% "vibrance". Then went in to soften the picture. I did it to the max amount to really blur the background more so he would stand out better then brushed over him so he wasn't so blurry. Then I went to "vignette" and looked for the right shade of blue to make his beautiful eyes stand out and also to hide the background even more.
On the second picture I cropped him even more to just get rid of more of the background. I again went into "vibrance" to brighten the colors a little and then softened it like I did in the previous picture. This picture though I went into "ortonish" and moved the "bloom" all the way to the right and then went into "matte" and did a very soft blue around the edge to keep the whole picture soft. I realized that I'd lost some of the blue in his eyes with everything I did so I went in to "eye color" and tried to find the right shade and then applied that to the picture.

4 comments:

Drew said...

How fun! I really love the blue border around the photo. Glad you found i heart faces. It's an awesome community of photographers.

Crystal Rae said...

I like the blue border as well... Great job

Susan said...

Love the blue eyes. Looks like fun. By the way, you won a heart in my giveaway. If you go to my profile, you will see how to contact me. Hope to hear from you soon. Susan

angie {the arthur clan} said...

I'm so glad you found us ~ you are going to have so much fun meeting the wonderful people who visit our site! Thanks so much for joining us for our Friday Fix-It...

~Angie
co-founder of I ♥ Faces