Fix-It Friday 35

It's Friday! My parents are in town (yay!) and I have a ton to do...but I couldn't resist playing with pictures :)Here's this week's original photo:

My first edit: Most of what I did for this one was done was when I opened it in camera raw. Just brightened it a bit and warmed it a bit. Once it was opened in photoshop I 'adjusted for skin tone' and cropped. I also sharpend the eyes just a bit...not much-they don't need much!

And then my conversion to B&W. I just used photoshops B&W conversion, and then brightened a bit.

What a pretty little girl! I tried to get creative, but it looked RIDICULOUS! I was trying to do some 'scrapbook-y' things, and, oh my...it was not good. SO, I will spare you :)

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Fix-It Friday #33

Thought I'd take a break from editing my baby's pictures to work on this little cutie!Here is the original picture:

And my edits:

For this first one I opened it in camera raw and warmed it up a bit...didn't do much in camera raw. The I opened it in PSE7 and selected the girl, feathered my selection and 'adjusted for skin tone'. I also used the 'unsharp mask' on her eyes, and bumped down the yellow in her eyes a bit. Then I did a square crop (my favorite!). I also used the eliptical tool, selected around her, selected inverse, feathered, and adjusted the levels to lighten the edges.


This next edit I just took the previous edit and put a pink layer, adjusted opacity, and then a pink textured layer, adjusted opacity.

And then I converted that one to black and white.

This was fun! I think the second is my favorite, but this little girl's photo is fun to play with!

Be sure to head over th I heart faces to see other great edits! Okay...I gotta go get my baby outta bed...

A couple more!

I just keep pluggin' away when I get little breaks :)

Finally getting some editing done...one down 20 to go...

Halloween Dress up!

This week at I heart faces is 'dress-up' week!

Here's my little pumkin :)

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Family

I love my family...

Fix it Friday #33

This week is a quick edit-I have 4 dozed sugar cookies to decorate for my sister-in-laws baby shower tomorrow :)

Above is the original

And my edit. I got the texture from here.
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Fix-It Friday #32

Another Fix-It Friday! I was so determinded to do something different this week!

Here's the picture to edit:

And here is what I did:

This wasn't exactly what I wanted, but I thought it turned out alright. I want ot know how to make the pictures different shapes...so I'm not just putting rectangles into a document (does that make sense?) Any tips?
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Excited!

Nothin' gets my baby excited like a 'tubby' :)

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Trying something...

Fix-It Friday #31

The quest to do something unique with these pictures continues...I try, but I am just not that creative :) So, here are a few fairly 'normal' edits. I just spent way too much time for 3 pictures that look about the same...

Anyway...here is the original picture:

And my edits:

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Happy babies!

These little kids are super cute! The picture above is the shot SOOC...

...and below are a few edits to the picture

What a smile!

My baby

Just a few shots from the other day.

Love this one :)

'What you lookin' at?' :)

Constructive Feedback Friday!

I love Constructive Feedback Friday! I love getting tips on what to do with pictures, and learning from the contributors at I heart faces!

I took this picture right before we returned from our vacation. We took a quick trip to the nursing home to see grandpa one more time before we left. This picture is so precious to me! I'm so glad my little boy got to be held by my grandfather-We never know how many more times he's going to be able to do this, as my grandfather's health is not the best.

I like this picture a lot, but it's kinda dark, and the colors are kinda funky. The only lighting we had was my grandfather's lamp he had in the room.

Picture info...I took the shot with my Canon 'point and shoot' camera...it was in auto mode...but I do have the settings...:f/2.8 ISO 250 shutter 1/60. I have been trying to mess a bit with the auto mode on my camera, but have had NO luck. I KNOW I need a better camera to get the pictures I want, but this is what I have right now, so I'm just trying to do the best with what I've got :) Oh...and I use Photoshop Elements 7

Any tips would be great!

Thanks so much for any advice you can give-I've learned so much from you guys already!

Fix It Friday #30

It's been a few weeks since I've participated...but i skipped my run this morning to work on this :) I had fun working with this-gave me some ideas for some underexposed 'stuff' I have.

Here's the shot SOOC

And my edit
Let's see if I can remember what I did...I opened it in camera raw and adjusted the exposure and lighting...a lot.

I created a hue/saturation layer and adjusted the reds

I did a couple of other layers, but I don't think they really affected the picture much.

cropped

Selected the boy and the hand, did the inverse, and blurred the background a bit-it was looking really grainy.

I lassoed (is that a word?) a few more red spots on his face and brought the red down a bit

I added a texture from here (got that from the last tutorial on i heart faces.)

And I was done.

This was a fun one!

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Green Grass

On our recent trip to Michigan I snagged my sister's awesome camera and took some pictures of my boy. Here's the shot SOOC.

And my edit.
My little cutie!

Completely candid

My niece just had her 3rd birthday party...so there were bunches of kiddos there to take pictures of :) This little girl was not posing, believe it or not :) She was just thrilled to have a spoonful of chocolate frosting in her hand! She was decorating a sugar cookie-one of the activities my sister-in-law had for the kids.

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Pretty girl...

It's been a while since I've posted...or really edited pictures in general to be honest. This little girl captured my attention, though, and I couldn't resist playing with the shot :) Above is the picture SOOC...

And my edit. Those eyes are amazing...