Summer Fragrance

My blog makeover creator:  Stephanie (and Jonah)

Hi...  Thanks for dropping in!

  

For my friends who haven't yet seen my new blog look, I owe its wonderful makeover to Stephanie Clark, co-host of the Edit Me Challenge. This is Stephanie and Jonah...

 If you would ever want her services, I highly recommend her... she's knowledgeable, creative, and easy to chat with over ideas. Stop by her blog, Gray Mornings Photography or etsy shop to find her!

Jaymi's submitted photo for us to edit

This week at the Edit Me Challenge:

Edit Me Challenge has a great photo by a very adventurous Jaymi at Live, Love, Travel. Here's a bit about her:

Hello, my name is Jaymi and I blog over at Live, Love, Travel. I'm 30 years old, living in Los Angeles and working in the (sometimes) glamorous world of TV. In the meantime, I try to teach myself photography and blog about what I learn. I also host a link up every Tuesday called Tips & Pics for people to share their own tricks so we can all learn from each other! You can follow my blog or on facebook!

My submitted entry :

Hoping to create a bright sunny day, where breezes blow the fragrance of flowers across the fields!

The edit process using Photoshop CS4:

• With mostly using the patch tool, removed unwanted flora from in front of the young lady. Fussed quite a bit with hair and earring to blend well.
• Stretched and expanded the canvas to help balance composition.  Used clone tool, patch tool, and selections with copy/paste to blend in grasses
• Soften skin with healing brush, patch tool, and an inverted high pass filter (set to 60% overlay)
• Brightened eyes, lips, touch of bracelet
• Duplicated layer, set to overlay to bring out colors.
• Adjusted brightness, contrast, vibrance, saturation to get achieved look, masking as needed
• Curves adjustments
• Selected outside areas with a gaussian blur
• Added canvas for white and black framing
• Sharpened and resized for web

Glad you wandered by!