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:

I ♥ Faces Challenge - We ♥ Tooshies!

Who doesn't love little baby tooshies?!? I guess there are some grown up tooshies we love too but for this challenge I thought I'd focus on the baby. In our house that would be Isabelle. The photo I chose for this challenge is of 12-month-old Isabelle's tooshie decorated with clothespins courtesy of her brother. That was a year-and-a-half ago and it's still never a dull moment in this house!

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.

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:

Inspiration

When you take photographs, inspiration can be found everywhere. The internet is also a great place to find inspiration. Today at I Heart Faces there is a great tutorial on textures. I have fallen in love with postprocessing photos with textures. Eventually I would love to make my own notecards or even prints. That is a dream that will hopefully come to fruition in the next couple years. I have lots more work to do before I can feel comfortable selling my photos.

The tutorial inspired me to play around with some textures I downloaded from Flickr. Below are two pictures I processed using different textures and opacities. Let me know what you think. I love honest criticism, even if it's bad! Lol! You can click the image to make it larger.

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.