And here is the original:
Here is what I did to this photo:
Opened in GIMP. Applied unsharp mask to entire photo. Lassoed irises and lashes and applied a second unsharp mask. Under colors menu, increased brightness and contrast using slider bar. Also decreased reds under Color Balance menu. Lowered overall color saturation. Selected red from color menu and increased lightness, lowered saturation. Added a layer, set to overlay at 50% opacity. Dodged the whites of eyes. Flattened image. Saved.
Opened image in Picnik. Cropped. Used blemish fix on undereye redness. Used shine-be-gone on nose. Added Cross Process effect faded to 85%. Added Sepia and selected peachy/gray from color bar. Saved to my computer. Done!
19 comments:
Beautiful! It looks like it belongs in a magazine!
Very nice! Great job on the lighting!
This looks great. I've never used GIMP. Great job, love it.
I really love what you did with this photo - it really brings out all the best lighting and shades!
Oh i Love it! Great job!
and looks great to me!
Tj
http://tjphotoexpressions.blogspot.com/2009/03/fix-it-friday-dimpled-darling.html
I love it! You do such a great job!
Wow, looks incredible! Thanks for giving the step-by-step instructions. I think you and I are the ONLY ones on earth not using Photoshop. I've never heard of GIMP and you've probably never heard of Fireworks. Haha But I'm gonna try it!
D-A-R-L-I-N-G! simply beautiful really!
I'm a complete moron when people start talking about correct lighting photo talk.
BUT I always love admiring great photos. Wow. Great job and making it more WOW.
:)
That is amazing and I'm so interested in practicing this. Thanks so much for the step by step details. What a beautiful picture.
You did a great job! Rally like it.
Wow! Great job...it's gorgeous!!
Yikes! None of that made any sense to me.. but my husband would get it. Me? I'll just enjoy a cute picture!
That's a fabulous edit!! I really love it!
The finished piece is gorgeous! I'm so impressed by all the photo editing you did (and that you knew how to do it!) I can barely resize a photo in Photoshop-lol!
wow! That is awesome editing!!
What a handsome little man. Great job on the photo. I like what you did!
He's so cute!
How did you remember all those steps? It sounds like a lot of work but the end result is great!
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