fix It friday #31

It has been a couple of weeks since I have been able to participate in the fun of fix it friday. I was excited to get back in the game!

original photo

my edit

For my fix this week

• I created 2 duplicate layers of the photo. On the top layer I used the blend mode of soft light and on the bottom duplicate layer I used the blend mode of screen. Both blend modes are used at around 50 % opacity.
• Next I bumped up the saturation level especially on the blues to help his eyes pop some.
• Then I popped his eyes some more by selecting them and using the High Pass filter in the soft light blend mode.
• Next I lighted the photo using levels
• And lastly I cropped and sharpened.

And WaLa! Finished. Oh and I cleaned up his face using the spot healing brush. I am glad that I am not the only one that gets pics of kids with "stuff" on their face. It seems my kids never have a clean face. Ha ha!