Editing: Portrait

Enhancements

Original

 Enhanced

Telecom | 5.18.11 @ 3.11pm | f/4.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/80 | Canon Powershot SX120 IS | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 34.9mm | no flash 

I saw some cool light coming in from the window, so I quickly snapped a picture. For this image, I cleared her skin to start with. Then I darkened her hair and added a little flair to it. After this, I went about airbrushing her skin. I cleared the eyes up a little. 

Replace Color

Enhanced

Original

Purple? | 5.21.11 @ 12.51pm | f/4.3 | Shutter Speed: 1/1000 | Canon Powershot SX120 IS | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 55.9mm | no flash

Okay, I agree. Purple was an interesting color choice, but I was really shooting for something a little outside the general status quo. This was my decision. I like how nifty they look. I selected the tulips and then went to the color replacement to give them a little more excitement. Once I adjusted the hue, I toned it down a little. 

Match Color

Original

Matched

 Final Product

Under the Stairs | 5.21.11 @ 1.26pm | f/4.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Canon Powershot SX120 IS | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 9.1mm | no flash

This little picture was fun, but it was little dark. So I cropped it to fit the image I wanted. Then I did match color. It reddened my model's skin a little, but after a little adjusting of the fade and color, I came up with this image. It is not a monstrous change, but it was enough to make me happy about the skin tone... and the back wall which lost its rather disgusting orange tint.

Because I Can | 5.10.11 @12.18pm | f/3.5 | Shutter Speed: 1/40 | Canon Powershot SX120 IS | ISO 200 | Focal Length 6.0mm | no flash

This picture was fun. I will admit that I had already cut out the WHITE wall behind me for the "original" picture, but I did not have the original, original any more. Primarily because it was awful, and partly because I used the picture for the sole purpose that I took it for. 

However, I took the picture, then I cut out the fluff. I wanted to make sure that this was a nice clean cut because I had destructive plans for this picture... okay, not so much destructive as unique. I made isolated the shadows and mid-tones and merged those layers. Then I hid the original picture. After that, I created a couple of brushes, including: PRSSA, enhance, broaden, and network. I made a new layer then to put my stamps. Then I created a layer mask on my mid-tone/shadow layer and option clicked it to paste the stamped image on it (which took FOREVER!). After that, I went back to the regular mid-tone/shadow layer and applied a rainbowy gradient and saved. I had gone a trifle overboard with the stamps, so I got the stamp again and on a new layer, I white stamped some of the the words back into the image. Ta-dah!