My wonderful friend, Cheri, recently sent this picture to me of her beautiful little niece, Lauren Grace. I felt so honored to edit a picture for Cheri. I am enamored with her photography style, and I jumped at the chance to collaborate on this project with her.
Here are the basics on how I edited this image…
*Enhanced the natural light of this photo in Lightroom 2.3
*Imported image to Photoshop Elements 7 and desaturated the color
*Coffeeshop’s Powder Room 2 on her eyes
*Used four different textures from the Florabella texture collection
*Flattened image
*Duplicated background layer and made the layer copy “color burn” at 19%
Cheri, it was truly a blessing to work with you. Let’s do it again!!!
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Big Kahuna and I have known each other since we were kids and have been married for almost 15 years. We are passionate about our family, travel and serving God. We love helping people and bringing them hope. We laugh ourselves to tears watching classic episodes of Saturday Night Live and The Office. Summer is our favorite season, and we live for warm evenings playing with the kids on the beach.
Big Surf is 14 years old. He's a voracious reader, focused, and spends hours building things. He is our resident techie and is also learning to play the violin. He loves to spend his free time playing baseball, flag football, or out on the trails by the house building his clubhouse.
Goofy Foot is ten years old. He devours his free reading books like there is no tomorrow. He is also the family comedian. If you see him, ask him to tell you a joke! He is tender-hearted, social and compliant. When he is not outside riding his bike, you'll find him drawing or writing a funny book.
Beach Bunny is three years old. She is our sunshine! She joined our family through the unbelievable gift of adoption. Beach Bunny loves to snuggle with us and carefully takes care of her baby dolls. She is super silly and must say hi to everyone! One word that describes her is "joy".
22 comments:
You always do such a beautiful job with photos.
Stop by my blog...I left you an award. You by far have one of the most "Kreativ" blogs that I follow...I truly love your blog.
http://lifeafter18seconds.blogspot.com/2009/09/kreativ-blog-award.html
Wow! Thank you!!
I'm hopping over to your cute blog right now. :)
WOW, what a beautiful little model!
Great balls of potato chips!! (he-he)
You are just Amazing! I just want to sit next to you and learn. Awesome! You seriously blow me away. My Florabellas are still sitting there waiting for me to learn more :)
it is a beautiful, beautiful picture and you made it even better.
Love ya!
What a beautiful girl! Love the effect of the desat on the picture!
wow!!!!! that is beautiful! :)
Beautiful edit (and model), as always. Would love for you to get your skills on my photos!
You did it again! Just amazing and beautiful! I'm with Hannah, I want to sit by you and learn! Hopefully some of your talent and creative juices would ooze over my way! :)
Gorgeous edits! And is it just me (I know I've been watching too many reruns of The Closer), or does your niece look exactly like Kyra Sedgwick must have looked as a kiddo? Funny.
I love it!!!!
Beautiful AS ALWAYS.... I was hoping to see the before photo too, its always cool to see the magic come alive.
Be careful, before you know it, I too will be sending you photos of mine. LOL
I got photos you can edit. WOW you have been doing an amazing job
Fabulous! Exceptional! Terrific! Kudos on your talent! And thanks for the sweet comments you left on my blog. :)
Oh you arej good!~!! I am telling you, if you need to edit, I have some photos for you!! I LOVE your work!!
WOW! Incredilble, I love it!
Thanks for the follow on my blog! I love yours by the way so I now am a follower of your blog, also :) Loving all your pictures!
You have true talent girl! I am always amazed when I stop by here. I love that you share with us how you do it too, that is what makes you even more amazing!!! Watch out! I'm going to have to send you a photo or two!!!
Loving the pic...thanks for sharing.
Magazine worthy. That's awesome. I need to play with my editing software so I can do cool stuff like that.
Amazing. I am attempting to learn GIMP, can't afford photoshop stuff right now, been laid off over a year now but they say GIMP is similar. I am SOOOO lost at it though. It only aggravates me. Then I see beautiful photos like yours and I want to try again.
Congrats on the PW feature!!! Gorgeous portrait and the texture work is divine!!!!
Thanks so much for mentioning my textures & for sharing with me! :)
Shana Rae :)
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