Edit: DSC_0759
This is not my photo, it is an edit as requested in the Helping Hands editing group here: www.flickr.com/groups/helping_hands_photo_editing_and_pho... Original photo by cannddie09.
Editing Steps:
Open in PSE 8
Duplicated the background layer, applied a high pass filter set to Overlay and masked out her skin
Add Levels adjustment layer, brought the whites and midtones up
Add a second Levels adjustment layer, brought the blacks up and then masked out her face to brighten it back up
Import to Lightroom 3
Applied preset Wheat Field
Adjusted the Luminance Smoothing and Color Noise Reduction...brought them down significantly
Adjusted the saturation of the Split Toning slightly
Reduced the exposure just slightly
Edit: DSC_0759
This is not my photo, it is an edit as requested in the Helping Hands editing group here: www.flickr.com/groups/helping_hands_photo_editing_and_pho... Original photo by cannddie09.
Editing Steps:
Open in PSE 8
Duplicated the background layer, applied a high pass filter set to Overlay and masked out her skin
Add Levels adjustment layer, brought the whites and midtones up
Add a second Levels adjustment layer, brought the blacks up and then masked out her face to brighten it back up
Import to Lightroom 3
Applied preset Wheat Field
Adjusted the Luminance Smoothing and Color Noise Reduction...brought them down significantly
Adjusted the saturation of the Split Toning slightly
Reduced the exposure just slightly