Edit ME!

Came across this neat little "touch up" linky over at My Reflection of Something blog. The guest judge this week is my friend Courtney from One Mom's Perfect Imperfections blog. In fact, the photo that we're editing is of her sweet girl! I had fun editing it and will share my edit and steps I used to achieve it!

Here is my edit:

Here is the SOOC and Edit "side by side" for comparison:

Here's what I did:
First I ran Coffeeshop's "Perfect Portrait" action and smoothed the skin with a 71% opacity brush. I turned the "Sharpen" layer on, I did the "Eye Define" with a 100% opacity brush, I used the "vibrant colors" layer with a 85% opacity bruch to bring out the colors in the balls(?) in the background and lastly I had a 100% opacity brush on the "urban grit" layer on the dark spots to make it more "edgy".
Next I duplicated the layer and did a gradient map adjustment with a soft pink, made it a "soft light" layer and turned opacity down to 25%. Next I did a color fill layer with this color (e2c28f), did a soft light to that layer and turned it down to 48%. Lastly I duplicated again and did a red and green gradient map and turned opacity down to 8% and there you have it! I love how her eyes pop and the soft tone and vintage-y feel! Hope you like!


And I'm gonna make this post fuller by adding some photos from Memorial day and yesterday too! :-D

My nephew, Colton :)

My neice, Addy

Dillon playin "water guns"!

Counting together playing hide n seek!

Finger paint time!


(My sister, Emily)

Messsssy Messes!!!
{All of the above were from Memorial Day!} To see more, vist my Flickr page! The ones below are from yesterday!

Dandelion wishes!

Lovely smiles (and tongues)

Jump jump jump!

Sequencing!
Thanks for stickin with me through that photo overload!