It’s time for Fix-it-Friday everyone and this week’s photo was a tough one. It goes to show you, though, the importance of getting your exposure right in camera. It is very, very, tough to fix a photo that is underexposed by more than a stop or two. But, this is still such a sweet photo of such a cutie-pie so it was really fun to work with. This photo was taken by Amy Pinney and is up for Fixin’ over at I Heart Faces.
The first thing I did was to run some noise reduction software. That helps to get rid of some of the graininess in the photo. I use Nik Software for both noise reduction and Color Efex Pro 2.0.
After reducing the noise I adjusted the levels to bring the exposure of the photo way up. Then I cropped to get in a little closer on her face and I used the clone stamp tool (in Photoshop 8.0) to clone out the dark spot on her arm (basically, you are “painting in” her arm). I also decided to clone out the jacket in the background. I don’t think there is anything really wrong with it but, just for fun, I decided to “get rid of it” and turn it into a backdrop. I also put a blur on the background and just left the little girl and the pinball table in focus. Of course, I also needed to play around with my Florabella actions and I decided I liked the “Soft Urban” action the best. I used the action at 100%.
Finally, I added just a touch of sharpening and that was that.
Here is the before….
And the After…
Cutie!
See ya’ next week for more Fix-it-Friday fun.
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