Here's today's challenge:
Here's my edit!
I did it really quick right before I left for work this morning. I would have spent a little more time on the background if I had more time!
I'm pulling this off the top of head, but here were my steps:
- -made WB adjustments and light fill in ACR;
- -added some more light fill to brighten the face;
- -ran Dull to Dazzling action from Michelle Kane;
- -ran the Mulberry tone from M4H;
- -stretched the canvas on the right and selected a portion of the canvas and did a "Content Aware" stretch to fill in the space with the white background;
- -cloned out the other balloon;
- -cloned a "good" part of the background at a 15% opacity to clone out the edge of the table and blend it in to look like a seamless background;
- -straightened and cropped; and
- -added a new layer in the "Multiply" blending mode with an inverted mask to add a slight vignette!
There it is (and I hope this all made sense!) I think it looks pretty good! :)
That's seriously amazing! I wish I loved photoshop, but I avoid it at all costs. LOL. If I can't do it in Lightroom, it's doesn't happen. I would never have even thought to edit this way. Good job!!
ReplyDeleteI really like your clean and fresh edit. Especially the cloned out balloon.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Dawn, I'm like that with Lightroom...I have it and I WANT to love it, but anything beyond using the sliders, I'm totally lost!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the cloning!! I forgot all about Fix it Fridays!
ReplyDeleteFantastic job! I'm been wishing and hoping for photoshop for such a long time, still hasn't happened! This makes me a little jealous lol!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I'm jealous, too! I have soooo much to learn. I'm currently enrolled in CM's Photoshop 101...and I'm so overwhelmed :(
ReplyDeleteLove how filled in the background and gave the photo a punch of color, removed the shadows...great job!!
ReplyDeleteThat looks awesome! Nice job! I need to learn how to do this!
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