I Heart Faces Fix-it Friday
Posted by Amy | Filed under I Heart Faces, Photography, Photoshop Tutorials
It wasn’t until I started I Heart Faces and got into photography that I realized most photos you see are NOT straight out of the camera. I knew there was airbrushing, blurring of the backgrounds and switching of heads involved because I had done that in my graphic design business. It was the actions, overlays and textures that I didn’t know about.
Photographers these days have a lot of tricks to make photos look better. That’s why we started Fix-It Friday, where you take an ordinary photo and give it that WOW factor. It’s fun to see what a bunch of people do to the same photo!
This is the original photo that was submitted this week. It’s a great photo, but a little muddy looking and has a really cool tone to it.
Here are some edits I made in Photoshop. I won’t go into details, but basically I tilted the photo so his head was straight, gave it a warmer tone, sharpened his eyes and mouth, then added those cool light dots we call “Bokeh” to the background. If you watch movies, you’ll notice them everywhere in the background!
I recently met Patti Brown who has the coolest textures and overlays. She gave me her Kaleidoscope Collection to try out and I love the Bokeh overlays because I can’t always get that to work in my photos. I think this middle photo is my favorite…
Go visit I Heart Faces to see what our awesome contributing photographers did to this photo, then add your own. It’s so fun!
Have a great weekend! – Amy
Tags: bokeh, Fix-It Friday, I Heart Faces, Photography, photoshop
December 4th, 2009 at 9:34 am
YES! I am also in love with the middle photo!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am
very cool textures… I just never think to use them!
Thanks again for hosting this each week — I LEARN so MUCH! It’s terrific.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Wow! What a difference that made. Beautiful!
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I didn’t even think to straighten the photo…great idea! I love the added bokeh too.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Absolutly LOVE the middle edit – the colours are amazing & the crop & tilt is really effective
TBH I’m not too sure about the bokeh overlay, but that’s prob’ just me 
Caroline´s last blog ..I ♥ Faces – Fix it Friday – #38- Baby Blue
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Lovely. This is my first week playing around, and my first week with my new CS4 . I have so much to learn. This is a great way to do it though.
XO*Tricia
Tricia´s last blog ..Fix It Fridays @ I Heart Face
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Thanks! I love them (the middle one especially).
-Lindsey (Ben’s mommy)
Lindsey´s last blog ..I Heart Ben
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I love the way you straightened him. Great fixes Amy!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
The sepia stole my heart!! Beautiful edits!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The bokeh spots and your cropping work perfectly here. You did a fantastic job on these.
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Love the crop!!! The edits are lovely too!
Rachel´s last blog ..Fix-It Friday #38
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December 4th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
So Beautiful!!!
I most buy the Kaleidoscope Collection!
You did AWESOME Amy!!!
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Rocio´s last blog ..FIX-IT FRIDAY @ i ♥ faces
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December 4th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
LOVELY! I love how you angled the picture!
Jessica Jensen´s last blog ..Fix it Friday # 38
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December 5th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Beautiful! I tried rotating but couldn’t get an angle that I liked..you did it perfectly. Love the bokeh (although I have to say that I’m addicted to what comes out of my “nifty 50″ lens and have no way to do it in editing… I envy your Photoshop skilz!). But it’s the eyes that you really did well… I love the middle edit but also LOVE his eyes in the first one. I bow before the master…..
Pam D´s last blog ..Fix It Friday–Big Eyes
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December 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I really have to spend some time – after the holidays – learning Photoshop. I really just use the autofix and crop tool. I want to learn how to take my artwork and be able to change the colors, backgrounds, etc.
Actually, I want to be able to, say, paint a dragon, drop it into a castle painting, or add a unicorn. Things like that. I just need to really play. Or take a course, I guess.
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December 9th, 2009 at 1:38 am
nice work!
i never thought sharpening only parts of a picture. i like the first one. but sepia is alittle bit more artistic!
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