What Would You Do (#10)

[Nicole]

Wow, up to #10 already, who would have figured? And the responses have been great! I especially liked last week's when the cake was reduced to a crumb

This week, we have a picture from Thinking_Mommy of her daughter for you to work on.



Available larger

As always, the rules are simple: Show us how you would edit the photo to make it your own. Then come back and post here with an explanation of how you did it. And the most important rule of all: Have fun

If you want your photo to be the subject one of these threads, just drop me a PM with a link to a smaller version (to be posted in the thread) and larger version. Photos get used in the order they are received.

Now, let's see what you would do. Who's first?

[ELAY]

Me first?

Levels to get a little more contrast.

Change in colour balance, more yellow, less red.

Cloned out crack in concrete.

Tried a vignette, then adding a texture on top, but nothing was working. I settled on some motion blur, with the face/neck masked off.



EL

EDIT -- forgot to mention that I had done a smart sharpening.

[Thinking_Mommy]

Elay, I like that! Thanks! I cant wait to see what others come up with!

[xxpinballxx]

well I played around with this for about 8 hours now in all and am having a hard time with it. Not that she's a bad subject cause shes just adorable but I am not getting a result thats accentuating her cuteness! here's what i got alot done to it and not sure I'd remember it all if asked.

[jiminyClickit]

At first I thought this was a trick: fix what? The photo can stand on its own. But you never know until you start one where it may lead. As usual, the eyes drew me in, and to focus attention there, mostly the rest is lightened and blurred with a little saturation put back in.

Some small wisps and things were cloned, the pupils fixed to even them out, catchlight replaced. Then a feathering to complete the fade out.



Another: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1427/...6e34aad012.jpg

Last one: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1284/...c449fdc967.jpg

[Sime™]

A lightroom conversion...

-crop path at top
-lightroom "default" direct positive conversion
-Vignette
-touch of blue
-touch of red
-slightly warmer light balance

(sorry - I went back and did a random "slider mess about" and came up with this, my b+w conversionish contrast-tastic version...)

[McNicks]

A tad cliched, perhaps, but ...



First of all, I quick masked the girl's eyes into a separate layer for later. Then I stamped out the crack in the concrete and applied some light sharpening. I also took a copy of the pavement in the edges of the photo into a separate layer and applied a little blurring, but I am not sure that it had much effect. Then I used a channel mixer layer to convert the whole background layer to b&w and then added in the layer with her eyes (still blue). I applied a bit more sharpening to that layer and then adjusted the opacity so that the color-mask effect was not too over-egged.

Edit: This probably needs a bit more contrast to give the b&w a bit of presence, so I probably should have fiddled with the levels a bit:

[shazzt]

My first go at a challenge here - how could I resist that cute face! I didn't do anything fancy.
Tilted the photo and cropped in closer
Sharpened it using the high pass technique
Bumped up the colours with a hue/saturation adjustment layer
Adjusted the contrast a little using the Smart curve filter for PSE
Cloned out the remaining crack in the concrete

I really liked seeing what everyone else did.

[Firemaine]

Rased the hue and concentration.
Cloned out the crack.
Blured the background and some of the sharp pixels.
Rased the color of her lips and eyes.
Added that splash border
This was done in Photoshop Elements 4.0

[Thinking_Mommy]

Originally Posted by Sime™

A lightroom conversion...

-crop path at top
-lightroom "default" direct positive conversion
-Vignette
-touch of blue
-touch of red
-slightly warmer light balance

(sorry - I went back and did a random "slider mess about" and came up with this, my b+w conversionish contrast-tastic version...)

How do you get the darkened corners on there? I have wanted to learn that! I love them both!