Fix it Friday #144

I'm back to Fix it Friday! Yay!

Original (Thanks to Helen John Photography)

My Edits:

Steps in GIMP: 

#1 Crop | Auto White Balance | Color Curves | Decrease Saturation -10 | Smoothed skin using smudge tool | Contrast +10 | Color Balance Cyan 10 and Yellow 20

#2 Duplicate #1 | Desaturate for lightness layer opacity 75% | Flatten

Fix it Friday #89

Fix it Friday strikes again:

Original (courtesy of Dana Suggs)

And mine:

Steps in GIMP

Auto white balance

Crop

Desaturate for luminosity

Brightness -20

Contrast +10

Unsharp mask 

Dodge tool on eyes

Colorize (Hue 141, Saturation 10)

Fix it Friday #88

I'm realizing just how much I love directed design - here's a picture, edit it; here's the details of our event, make a  poster (gotta love having a fiancé on the CRU outreach team) etc. So with no further ado, here's fix it friday #88.

Original {Angie Arthur Photography}

And my edit in GIMP

Check out more edits

Fix it Friday #87

Wow - haven't done this in a while!
Anyway, here is our lovely original photo by Andrea Riley (thanks!)

And here's my final edit

Constructive Feedback Friday

So I'm super excited for Fix-it Friday this week. Here's the description:
"Anyone can write a blog post that has one photo in it that they’d like to gain feedback on... Other photographers in our community will then be able to visit each post to give feedback on they feel the problems could be fixed." 
As an amateur photog that means YAY!! I thought for a while and decided on a picture that is my favorite I've ever taken. It's been up here before, so sorry from the repetition, but I'd love to see what others would do with it.

 What would you do with it?

Fix it Friday #70

It's been a while since I've done a FIF, but needed a good distraction in class :) So here it is:
The Original (not my photo)

And here are my edits:

Number 1:

White balance, Color enhance, Color Balance (Yellow -50, Red -10), Saturation +30, Lightness -10, Contrast +10, Duplicate Image, Desaturate with layer mask bows and eyes, Overlay, Add fuzzy border (black, 50px), Layer mask to fix border, flatten and watermark

Number 2:

B&W duplicate layer of #1 at 80% opacity over edit #1

Click here for more edits of this little cutie!

Fix it Friday #61

My first Fit-it Friday Entry, through iheartfaces.com. I edit with GIMP.

The Original 

THIS IS NOT MY PHOTO

My finished product. The text is Ecclesiastes 3:1