I ♥ Faces – Fix-it-Friday #38

I haven’t done one of these in a while … but decided to give this one a shot and procrastinate other tasks I should be doing during an unplanned morning off  (due to clients who are ill).  What a cute little baby – and a great photo … it was fun to edit!

  • Duplicate background layer to do a little spot healing around his chin/mouth
  • curves adjustment – normal blending
  • duplicate curves adjustment – soft light blending
  • TRA “Warm it up Kris” @ 30%
  • TRA “Oh Snap” @ 54%
  • TRA Smooth-o-matic @ 25%
  • selected each eye – “layer via copy” for each eye and then used image … adjustments … levels … white-balance dropper on the white of each eye to brighten them up a bit
  • slightly sharpen eyes/face details via unsharp mask – brush @ 26% opacity & fill @ 12%
  • darken background slightly via TRA “Yang” layer mask (of TRA “Yin/Yang”) – large, soft brush at 25% opacity & fill @ 10%

. . . and then he played “Taps.”

After an inspiring morning at church, I decided I’d better get myself over to The Healing Field 9.11 Memorial at Tempe Beach Park before it’s put away for another year.

I took my camera with me {of course}.

The breeze was blowing as I worked my way through the literal waves of stars & stripes.  I stopped at the flag of a young child.

As I admired the sweet little teddy bear who guarded her flag, an older gentleman toting a bugle came up quietly behind me.

He said not a word.

He stood at attention right next to her flag and its proud teddy bear sentry.

He took  a deep breath.

I couldn’t move.  I didn’t want to . . .

. . . and then he played “Taps.”

[see larger version of the storyboard here]

Fix-it Friday #28

Here it is … Fix-it Friday #28 from I ♥ Faces

Original (darling, darling baby!)

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Collage of 4 of my edits (click thumbnail to see large version) and one more edit (my favorite, I think) below the collage …

{next post will be some of my own pictures. promise.}

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