RazNoggle

So, it’s actually Thursday night… but I was bored and didn’t want to do any of the responsible things that are around here clamoring to be done. Hey, my children aren’t the only ones with selective hearing!! Ha ha!

Anyway, the little pixie faced doll in this week’s fix-it photo was SOOOOOO stinkin’ cute! I had a great time with this one! Here is the original, which wasn’t bad at all I thought. A tad on the bright side on sweetie’s face, and a teeeeny bit out of focus. Arg! I hate it when that happens!!! And it happens frequently to me unfortunately.

My first fix:
I’m using the Aperture program for all of these edits. I tried to talk myself into using pixelmator tonight, but I didn’t wanna! What I did was make it a color monochrome to kind of even out a bit of the brightness. I bumped UP the saturation in yellow, blue and red to bring a bit more color into her face then I knocked back the monochrome just a squeeze so that the colors came through a bit. I like it.

Next:
On this one you can see I straightened it out a bit. Nothing against the angle of the first, I just wanted something different. Doing that however REALLY augmented the fact that her eyes were a touch on the fuzzy side, so I used the dodge and burn tool to sharpen her eyes, mouth and nose a little bit. I think it worked well this time around. I don’t always find it a success on some of my photos. I also saturated her lips slightly and added a vignette. On this and the next one I brought up the levels on the highlights and recovery bars which seemed to even out her skin a little bit more and make up for it being too bright. I think this is my favorite fix for this week.

Last one:
Monochrome of course. I used a blue filter on it. Again I sharpened the eyes/mouth a little bit. Bumped up the contrast and added a pretty heavy vignette. It’s different, but I think I like it.

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