Fix – It Friday: Most Beautiful Gift

Posted on July 3, 2009

Today is Fix-It Friday over at I ♥ Faces. This is a cute picture they gave us to work with! Wonderful focus and an adorable little girl with BIG blue eyes!

My first version, I started with a Snap action from MCP Actions and reduced opacity to about 25%. Then I used Shadow bump action from On The Spot Studio set Heart and Soul. Then, A Touch of Color from MCP Actions, added a vignette and decided the shadows were still a bit too blue so used a selective color layer and reduced the cyans in the Reds, Whites, and Neutrals, added a little yellow in those, as well, and voila!

For version 2, I added an action that I like and am not sure where it came from, but it’s called Blue Pumpkin. It adds a slight vintage warmth to the picture.

For most of my BW conversions, I use MCP Take Action On Cancer and play with the different color layers. For this one, I added the black layer at the default for a little more depth in the shadows and the Peach layer at about 4% for slight warmth.

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Comments

3 Comments so far
  • ?spoiled mommy? says:
    July 4, 2009 at 00:28 -

    Oh I love your edits! Your blue pumpkin action kinda looks like the soft gold on I use.
    All of yours are so clean and crisp, I have computer issues…on my laptop they look so light and then on my desktop they look SOOO dark! And looking at mine now on the laptop, wow the colors are so right in your face.
    WHat kind of computer do you use to edit?

  • Lindsay says:
    July 4, 2009 at 01:32 -

    Your edits are very very good!! I love them all.

  • Lysandra Cook Photography says:
    July 14, 2009 at 00:08 -

    Great edits! Love the first and last.


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