Tuesday

Your Photo- My Edit

Lauren Grace

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!!!

22 comments:

Proud Parents of Halainah Grace said...

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

Pineapple Princess said...

Wow! Thank you!!
I'm hopping over to your cute blog right now. :)

Mama Bear said...

WOW, what a beautiful little model!

Hannah said...

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!

Mrs. M said...

What a beautiful girl! Love the effect of the desat on the picture!

Lauren said...

wow!!!!! that is beautiful! :)

Cate O'Malley said...

Beautiful edit (and model), as always. Would love for you to get your skills on my photos!

Laurie said...

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! :)

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M3 said...

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.

Steph said...

I love it!!!!

Misty Rice said...

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

Suzanne said...

I got photos you can edit. WOW you have been doing an amazing job

Ana said...

Fabulous! Exceptional! Terrific! Kudos on your talent! And thanks for the sweet comments you left on my blog. :)

Arena Mom said...

Oh you arej good!~!! I am telling you, if you need to edit, I have some photos for you!! I LOVE your work!!

Daveda said...

WOW! Incredilble, I love it!

Amanda said...

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!

Jaimee said...

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!!!

Geezees Custom Canvas Art said...

Loving the pic...thanks for sharing.

Kari said...

Magazine worthy. That's awesome. I need to play with my editing software so I can do cool stuff like that.

Julie @ Life Domestic said...

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.

Shana Rae said...

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 :)