Went out shooting with a friend the other night and got this adorable shot of her little girl! Unfortunately, the shadow lines on her face just ruined it for me.
Here is the image straight out of camera:
Here are my workflow steps:
1. First I opened a basic curves layer to lighten the overall image and bring up the midtones.
2. Then, I ran Liz Labianca’s “black and white affair” action & made the following adjustments:
[brought up opacity on ‘darken shadows’ layer and ‘brighten midtones’ layer, tweaked the pop layer, inverted the lighten mask and painted it back on using a low opacity white brush- just over her face.]
3. To get rid of those pesky face shadows was a bit tougher. I created a new layer from the background (control J) and then took out my burn & dodge tools! I painted over the shadows using dodge at 100%, and then lowered the opacity. I ran this step several times until the shadows were gone. I then took out the burn took and painted back some of the naturally occuring face shadows. I played on this layer for quite some time- tweaking away until her face looked normal. When I was finished I took the dodge tool one last time and changed the brush size so it just covered the circle between the eyes/nose. One quick click was all she needed to brighten up her face & give her that bright eyed glow!
4. Next I ran a sharpen mask and painted lightly over her eyes, eyebrows, and those cute hair wispies to really make them pop!
5. Lastly, I ran a new layer and used the burn tool (followed by a small brush over a new sharpen layer mask) to bring back those adorable freckles on her nose that were lost during all of that “dodging”! (I think they are hard to see at this size...but I promise, they are there!)
That’s it!
I flattened my image, added my watermark, and resized it for the web!
Hope you enjoyed my 1st ever tutorial!
Maybe some screen shots, next time?
(Psst...Here is the template for sharing/pinning)
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