Time for another fix-it friday, this time with an awesome submission from the lovely Angie Arthur of I heart Faces fame!
I always like to keep things simple – especially when I’m just playing around for fun! My usual go-to post-processing steps that I showed you last week just didn’t quite work with the beautiful backlight that Angie has captured here, so I ended up modifying it a little bit. Here’s the B&A, with more details to follow:
It needed a bump in saturation, but my usual Soft Light blending mode just made the shadows on the left side of her face too dark, so I masked out her body, leaving that effect on the grass and the background. Then I created an identical layer – bumping the saturation up to +25 just like before – and then set that layer to Screen blending mode, which lightens up the shadows. That washed out the background, so I masked out everything but her body. All told, it probably took around 2 minutes. That’s my kind of fix! Here’s the Layers Palette with the layers for my first fix – on the upper right, above.
After that, I decided to play around a bit. On the lower left, I added a new Hue/Saturation layer, set to Colorize, Hue 35, Soft Light blending mode, to create a little bit of a vintage feel. And on the lower right, I used CoffeeShop’s latest tutorial: Buttercream Black and White.
3 comments:
I love the vibrancy of your first edit and I also love the black & white! I remember seeing CoffeeShop came out with that Buttercream action and I've been meaning to get it. Thanks for the reminder :-)
I really like your tutorials. They are just what I need. You don't skip the basic steps like most people do. Thanks a bunch!
I really like your first edit!!
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