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These images just asked for some text to be added...and since I stood up a friend for coffee this morning while I was making them I figured I had better post them for proof! :) Sorry Crystal!!

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Fix It Friday Week #15 @ I ♥ Faces

Fix it friday again....I love it! I have been taking a bit of a photography break in May with all the busy things going on, parties, soccer games, and yard work!! (Never ending yard work!) So the fix it friday's have been keeping my creative juices flowing!) I am using photoshop 7.0. Here is the original picture submitted by Jennifer from Confessions of a Working Mom.

My first edits were to lighten the image, boost the colors and sharpness, then make the eyes pop! I smoothed out the skin as well since the lightening process brought out the white fuzzies.

On this final draft I just enhanced the above version by cropping in close to her face and then running "Lovely and Ethereal" from PW. (one of my favorites!)

On this one I took the cropping even closer in and made the picture into a vertical layout. Then I ran "70's" action from PW (love her!) What would fix it friday be for me without a 70's action picture?! :)

"Ponytail Princess" = Fix it Friday @ I ♥ Faces

This weeks photo comes from Katarina @ Rambunctious Joy. This sweet little girl is adorable.

The Original Image:

My first edit was to crop it and boost the colors, lighting and sharpness:

I then did a high contrast black and white:

I wanted to try a change the background a bit. I layered a texture over the image, lowered the opacity and then used a mask to remove the texture from the Ponytail Princess:

On this edit I extended the canvas on both sides of the little girl. Then I cloned the background in to create a continued background. I then boosted the colors, and ran PW's "Lovely and Ethereal":

Fix It Friday Week 13 @ I ♥ Faces

Fix it Friday again...yay!

This week we are fixing the following picture....the first thing I noticed was the bright background and underexposed subject. I thought of using PW's action to "dim the lights" and it worked beautifully. My edits are below...I tried not to do a bunch this week, but as I have said before, once I get started, I just don't want to stop! :)

ORIGINAL

Cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the background, lightened the girl and ran 70's Action

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Same as above, but converted to black and white.

Same as above, but layered the black and white over the color, then used a layer mask to remove the b&w from the tulips.

Fix It Friday

Fix It Friday at I ♥ Faces. This week they have an adorable little baby. I was really excited to work on this one. I tried really hard not to look at the edited versions so I could use my own ideas. I managed to only see one (which I loved!). So here is my take on this photo. All edits were made with Photoshop 7.

Original Shot

Rotated 45 degrees, and cloned in the blanket to fill in the voids. First I lightened the image. Then ran an action to make the eyes sparkle. I also added a texture called "sandstone" to blur out my changes to the blanket. Then I used the history brush on the face. Then I used "rounded corners" action, just cuz I like it. :)

On this picture I did the same as above, except without the sandstone filter.

This one has the "Seventies" action that I love so well. I change the layer opacity a bit to tone it down some.

On this shot, I ran the sparkly eyes action, then I lightened the picture by about 2 more steps. Then I converted it to black and white. This one is my favorite of the edits.

I ♥ Faces ~ Fix it Friday ~ ....and, big news!

I wasn't gonna say it this week, but just can't help my self...I love Fix it Friday at....

Here is the original shot....adorable already! Look at those dimples!!

So first I just lightened the shot a tiny bit and sharpened it. The rest of my changes are based off of this one.

You might recognize this action from Pioneer Woman....its called Heartland. It is one of my favorites, but is sometimes hard to get just right because I usually want to tweak the layers a bit to get it looking how I want it.

This one has a color boost as well as a black and white layer over it...I changed the black and white layer to an overlay and that is how I got the dark contrasts on it.

I think this last one is my favorite. There is something about black and whites and kids....its just classic. I love how this one pops out the contrasts too!

On a totally different note....big news!

I am heading off tonight to Mexico! Ahh...2 days notice just is not enough. But I think I will be fine. I am going with 2 high school students, and 3 other adults from church. We will be driving down...around 18 hours and should arrive tomorrow afternoon in AZ. I am really excited about it and can't wait to go to the orphanage. That might be my favorite part of the trip (already!) but it might also be the part that kills me. I don't know if I can leave any of the little ones there! :( We will also be visiting a church that some of the congregation built around 20 years ago. I am really excited about the whole trip. I am sure I'll take lots of pictures and I'll post them sometime about 10 days from now.

See you then!

Fix it Friday~ I ♥ Faces

I can't get enough of Fix it Friday! It is my favorite day at I ♥ Faces!! I decided this week that I could ONLY post 2 pictures. (Since every week before I have been posting 4+!) So this week I only worked on 2 (which turned into 4! But I narrowed it back down to two!) I am using Photoshop 7 to edit my pictures.

The Original

Lightened, warmed and converted to black and white, then rotated a bit and cloned in the background to create a larger space around the face.

On this one I lightened it, and warmed it up. I then cropped it to a horizontal angle and cloned in the background to create a different look. I would take any suggestions on how to fix the cloned part...I feel like it has some obvious "rows" or lines.

Fix it Friday @ I ♥ Faces *edited*

I love Fix It Friday! I really like being artistic and creative with pictures...and when it is someone elses pictures, it makes it that much easier. :) This week was hard though. I forgot to not look at the contributors fixes before I did my own, and it made it a bit difficult for me. I felt like I was either copying what I saw, or just recreating it by accident. But...here is what I came up with anyway. (I always have to do a few, because I can never decide which ones I like the best!)

The Original Shot Taken by Angie

The next four are the "fixes" that I tried....the very last one, is probably the most artsy or creative one. I tried adding a film grain to the photograph just to make it a little different. *edit* Okay, I just was NOT pleased with my last picture...so it is different then the first one I posted.

I ♥ Faces Fix-It Friday #2

I ♥ Faces Fix it Friday... I love it! Here is the original picture...and my versions follow. I loved the black and white version done by Jenn Bowen. I really like high key black and whites. The last version is probably my favorite....

The Original

Black and White

Color Boost

"Seventies" Action