Fix It Friday - Little Cutie

This week at iheartfaces the Fix-It Friday is a little beauty and her doll baby. I used Florabella's Vintage Wine action and then added her linen texture. Super simple this week! Click to enlarge images.

Original:

My edit:

iheartfaces Fix It Friday - Pinball

Pinball can be a mesmerizing game to watch. The lights and the sounds are probably too much for a child to pass up. Such is the case with this week's Fix It Friday by Amy Pinney.

I will try and go through the steps I took but sometimes I make so many changes that I forget what I did.

Original:

My edit:

1. Used levels and curves to adjust exposure.
2. Cropped.
3. Cloned to take the blue shirt out of the corner.
4. Used the Florabella Cappuccino texture.
5. Cropped a bit more.
6. Used the magnetic lasso at 5feather to select her face.
7. Ran Gaussian blur so that I could get the color but not the actual texture on her face.
8. Dodged the eyes a bit to make them stand out more.
9. The green in the background was distracting me so I lassoed that and desaturated.
10. Touched up the face to make the green completely gone.

iheartfaces Fix It Friday - Garden Baby

It's another edition of fix-it Friday at iheartfaces. This week we have a beautiful little beach baby (oops, she was in a garden but it looks beachy to me. Lol!). To me, this photo just screamed sunbleached. I wish I could remember the steps I took but honestly, I just kept playing until I got it the way I wanted. I will attempt to tell you what I did.

Original:

First I cropped, adjust levels and curves, added the Florabella Milk & Honey overlay, adjusted to liking, then ran PW's seventies action, adjusted to liking and finally ran PW's Soft & Faded action.

iheartfaces Fix It Friday

It's Friday! I love Fix It Friday. I have so many of my own pictures to enhance but I don't know where to start. Fix It Friday at iheartfaces allows me to be creative while only worrying about one picture. Love it!

This week is a picture of a sweet little girl. I didn't do a whole lot to the picture. I played with leves and curves. Tried to hide some of the shadow on the right and then added some textures for fun. I sharpened the eyes and then did some dodging and burning to get a somewhat natural look. Does that make sense? I'm not wild about my crop though. I might have to figure something else out.

Here is the before:

And here is the after:

Fix It Friday - Family

So this week at iheartfaces we have a Fix It Friday that has been on my mind all morning. The Zwart family has been given the news that the patriarch of the family has terminal cancer. Not just any cancer, leukemia.

Leukemia is a cancer that I know all too well. Twelve years ago my mom was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. She was 43. Thankfully her youngest brother was an exact match for a bone marrow transplant. She has had many residual effects of that leukemia but she lived. By God's grace, she survived. Now, here we are twelve years later and she has been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. She's 55. We've seen God's miracle once and we are praying for that miracle again for her.

I am now praying for that miracle for Jeff and his family. Please feel free to visit their sites and offer some encouraging words and/or prayers for this young family. Jeff's Caring Bridge site. Adrienne's Blog.

Here is the original photo:

Here is my edit. I cropped, adjust levels and curves, ran Pioneer Woman's seventies action and I was done. Again, please keep this beautiful family in your prayers.

Fix It Friday - Birthday

This week's Fix It Friday celebrates I Heart Faces one-year anniversary!

Here is the original photo:

I wanted to focus on the child and decided that black-and-white with a splash of color was the best way to accomplish that. I ran Pioneer Woman's B&W Beauty action and then used a layer mask to highlight the candle. I hoped by doing this it would distract the eye from the cup in the foreground.

Fix It Friday

This week's I Heart Faces Fix-It Friday is a little different. No cute kid faces this week, nope, today we have a rough and tumble cowboy! This photo is so cool. I wanted to make it look a little rustic. A little old. A little vintage. So here is my take on this awesome picture!

The original:

My take invovled a crop, then some curve and level adjustments followed by Pioneer Woman's Heartland action with some adjustments to those layers. Finally I topped it off with a texture from Florabella textures:

Fix-It Friday

This week at I Heart Faces we have a sweet little boy named Bennett. For whatever reason I love editing others' photos more than my own. Odd isn't it? I guess it's not that I don't like editing my photos, it's just that there are so many I don't know where to start. Fix-It Friday lets me do one and not have to worry about any others, that must be why I like it so much!

Here is the original: He is so cute!!

For my edit, I used curves to fix some of the colors. Then I added a few textures from the Florabella Texture collection and then went through the blending modes until I found what I liked.

I ♥ Faces Fix-It Friday

It's Friday! I love Fix-It Fridays. This week we have one sweet looking little man. His big eyes are just adorable! I'm still obsessed with textures so I decided to use it for this photo. The clean background was fun to play around with.

Here is the original:

Here is my "fix":

I ♥ Faces Fix-It Friday

What a beauty we have today! I Heart Faces is hosting Fix-It Friday with a photo from Hotomom.

Here is the original.

Here is my take. I rotated the picture and then played with the curves and dodged the eyes a bit. I then ran PW's Seventies action and tweaked the contrast and brightness a bit so her face wasn't quite so bright.

Fix It Friday - Halloween Fairy

For my first post since getting home from Disney, I am doing I Heart Face's Fix It Friday! Today we have a sweet little fairy.

Original:



My edit involved a crop, texture overlay and some color tweaks.

I ♥ Faces Fix-It Friday

It's another installment of Fix-It Friday Over at I Heart Faces. This week we have a beautiful little ballerina baby with a sweet little tutu and headband! Talk about sugar overload, this baby is so sweet!

Original:

Soft Version:

This edit involved a crop, some Pioneer Woman actions and some opacity fiddling. I really have to remember to write my steps down!

I ♥ Faces Fix-It Friday

It's another wonderful Friday! That means I ♥ Faces is holding another Fix-It Friday. Last week was a special Critique Friday and although I got some wonderful advice, I really missed "fixing" a photo. This week we have a beautiful little guy that Kim from My Family's Circus submitted. Her nephew is adorable!

I prefer to leave my pictures of children as they were. While others might see the food on his face as flaws, I see them as the little boy was at this stage in his life. Kids are messy, no doubt about that. So I didn't patch the flecks on his nose or cheek. I wanted to leave them there. I think they're cute. I loved the photos the contributors did and I will admit that taking the food away made for an amazing portrait, but I'm just a mom who likes to leave the food there. Lol! Enjoy!

My version:

Original:

My Fix-It Friday #5

This week at I Heart Faces we have "Wee Man" shot by his momma Catherine. She explains the reason the picture is dark and says that it is due to "Mommy Brain". As moms we sometimes suffer from this "mommy brain", it really should be an actual diagnosis! Lol! So below is my Fix-It of her cute little boy at the beach. I went a totally different way this week and turned the one picture into a watercolor. The other I played around with in camera raw until I found what I liked. I think the vignette is a bit much though. Hope you enjoy it!

The original:

Fix-Friday #4

This is my fourth Fix-It Friday and again, we have one stunning model. Thanks to The Animator's Wife for such a great picture to work with! Below you will see my edit. The little girl's face was so beautiful that I wanted to focus on that. Enjoy!





































































The original shot:

Fix-It Friday

Hard to believe this is my third Fix-It Friday! Head on over to I Heart Faces to see other amazing entries and the contributors' take.

I have been lucky enough to have three crazy-adorable kiddos to work with these last few Fridays. This week is a cute bugaboo with amazing eyes. I really wanted to make this picture as dreamy as possible. The innocence children exude is too much to make the picture too sharp. I know the picture looks blown-out and if I had more time I could try and fix that but I was happy with where it was and I have to get "A" ready for school, so here is my take on it and then below is the original. Click to enlarge.

Fix-It Friday #2

It's time for another Fix-It Friday at I Heart Faces. Today is a phot of an adorable little boy looking like he is in some deep thought! Lol. For this picture I lightened it up a bit, sharpened the eyes and dodged them and then added a wood texture to the photo. Here is the final product:

And here is the original:

My first Fix-It Friday

First, I am in the middle of creating my background, that is why this page looks so blah.

As mentioned in my first post, I Heart Faces is doing their Fix-Friday today. I have never done this before and am hoping I am not too out of my league here. First off, the picture of this little girl was already beautiful! She is stunning. Here is the original:

















Like I said, beautiful!


So here is what I did:























I am a sucker for desaturated pictures. These are the steps I took to get this:
1. Crop
2. PW action Define & Sharpen
3. Desat to -76
4. Dodge the eyes to make them pop a little more.
5. Brushed the flowers to make them a little darker.
6. Magnetic lasso to select background and then used Gaussian Blur.
7. Unsharp mask. (I know everyone uses this but I honestly don't understand why it's called "unsharp" anyone?)

So there it is, my first Fix-It Friday on Momarazzi.