Before:
After
Some Background:
My wife. Morning time. On vacation in England.
Post Production:
Ok. The first thing I did was to crop out the right third of the photo because it wasn't important to the shot. This also made the photo compliant with the rule of thirds.
Second: I sharpened some of the edges using photoshop's smart sharpen tool.
third: Created a duplicate layer set to multiply and added a gaussian blur over the whole thing.
fourth: on the original layer I used the selective color tool to increase the saturation and vibrancy of the blues and reds.
fifth: Added a masking layer over her face and body to bring her back in focus.
Lastly flattened the image.
I'm sure I missed some steps in there, but the most important part is the layering, multiplication, gaussian blur and masking.
Thanks,
Steketee
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