![]() ![]() Using Curves, I added red and blue to the shadows, red and yellow to the highlights and yellow to the mid-tones. ![]() For this image, I used both Curves adjustment layers and Hue/Saturation layers to create a warmer, more golden palette for this image. Playing with the color and creating color toning. Now it was time for my favorite part of editing. For me, editing is an evolving process and I am only able to decide what I want for an image by playing it. I often find when I am editing that I am brightening and then darkening (and then brightening again) different parts of an image as I am editing. I wanted to keep the brightness around her, so using a big, soft brush I masked this change off the center of the image. From there I felt the image was a bit to bright around the edges so, again using a Curves adjustment layer, I pulled down on the mid-tones. I also lowered the opacity to about 30% so they were less visible. Again, I added a mask and blended in the clouds with a soft brush. I also decided I wanted more clouds at the top of the image so I copied and pasted clouds from another image also from this shoot. To do this, I duplicated the layer and used the Clone Stamp tool. Now that I had the reflection in place, I wanted to smooth out the sand along the bottom of the image. ![]() I continued to do this to bring in the reflection and some extra hair also from another image. (I often take pictures of the area around where I am doing a shoot in case I want to add in any other details later.) To do this, I used the exact same technique as I did in Step 1 above. Next, I copied and pasted in the bird from another image I took during this shoot. I decided the image needed a bit of brightening so I used a curves adjustment layer and pulled up, just slightly, on the mid-tones.ĥ. I also used the Liquify filter to “poof” out her dress a little more to really play up that sense of movement. I find that using a large soft brush works better than a small brush. Next, I used the clone stamp tool to remove the dry sand and expand the wet, reflective sand across the bottom of the image. To do this, I used Content Aware Scale to expand the sky and sand so that I could create the crop and keep her centered.ģ. I knew I wanted this to be a square crop with the subject in the center. I added a masked to each of these layers and, using a soft brush, I masked off around the leg and dress to blend them in.Ģ. ![]() I then repeated this to bring in the dress. I came back to this image and hit Command V to paste in the leg. To composite in her leg and a new bottom to the dress, I used the lasso tool to select the leg from another image then hit Command C to copy it. Since I had taken a number of images, I knew I could composite in the pieces I needed to fix these things.ġ. First, you can’t see her second leg (so she looks a bit like a pelican) and second, I thought her dress looked too bunched up. This was my favorite of the images I captured of the subject skipping but there were two things I didn’t like about it. Please let me know if you have questions. This was not a quick edit, so I tried to share what I did, in detail, for each step. I have received a lot of questions on how I edited this image so I thought I would share this tutorial in the hopes it provides some inspiration. ![]()
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