Fix It Friday #78–The Way I’d Do It!

Every photographer edits differently and it’s interesting to see how drastically different the results can be!

So, here’s my edit of this week’s Fix-It Friday photo.  And here’s what I did to get the result I ended up with:

I started by running The Pioneer Woman’s Boost action.  Next I took the magnetic lasso and selected only the boy’s face and hair and increased the curves on it to lighten it.  Then I cropped the photo and tilted it a little.  I then burned the edges everywhere except on the boy’s face and hair.  I then ran The Pioneer Woman’s Sharpen This action and used the brush on just the boy’s hair, eyelashes and lips.  I then flattened the image, duplicated the layer and to that layer I selected >Filter >Render >Lens Flare and selected the 100mm flare, put it in the top right corner at about 105%.  I then flattened the image again and ran The Pioneer Woman’s Sharpen image and saved it. 

I, also, quickly changed the photo into a black and white, but I didn’t think it looked good, even after playing around a little with the levels and opacity, etc.  It could be me, I’ve not found a process that I’m in love with for black & whites.  Or, maybe some photos just don’t render well when not in color.?

So… what do you think of my editing?

The Original. This photo was taken by Susan Keller.

After I edited it:

Now, run over to I Heart Faces and see some other great options for editing this same photo!