fix it friday, vol. 4

It's a fun one this week. Great picture to start with. Just made a few adjustments to make it really pop.

Before:

After:

What I did:

• levels
• brightness/contrast
• bumped up saturation slightly on entire image, then deselected face and increased more
• warmed up slightly in color balance
• increased highlights on teeth to whiten
• dodged forehead and eye area to lessen shadows
• eyes: dodged all, burned pupils, edges and eyelashes. dodged under eyes. bumped up saturation and sharpened.
• clone stamp to erase snowflake on jacket
• unsharp mask
• cropped

More editing than I would normally do, but I get a little carried away on fix it friday!





Have a great weekend...Hope the storms stay away from your neck of the woods, as Al would say.