iHeartFaces {Fix-It Friday #75}

I really enjoyed this week's Fix-It Friday. This photo was taken by the beautiful and talented Angie Aurthur. As soon as I saw it, I knew what I wanted to do to it. Here is the original.

For the first edit, I knew I really wanted the trees to pop, and since his skin was a touch dark and shadowed and the whole photo had a bluish cast to it, right away I adjusted the curves a but and added a little yellow and red to bring out the color.

After I had the color close to the way I wanted, I cropped it in. Even though I loved the trees, I thought the little boy was getting a bit lost. I still left plenty of trees because I think it helps to tell the story. I then duplicated the layer. I changed the layer type to Soft Light and took the opacity down to around 45% (I think... I forgot to write that down.. oops). This really helped to achieve the pop I was looking for.

Since I already had his skin the way I wanted it when I changed the color, I completely erased the boy on the 2nd layer. Then I flattened the image and did a little more playing with the color. That was it!

For the second and third edits, I ran Paint The Moon's Bliss Action, using the bliss, golden honey, boost back color, peach sorbet, iced, vintage, deeper, warmth, sunset hues, deep blue sky and dreamy pop layers.

I wasn't too crazy about the way the boy's skin looked, but I loved the rest of the photo, so I selected him and added some red/yellow to bring some color back in. After I flattened and saved the image, I desaturated almost all the way, then adjusted the color a bit to get #3.

I hope you enjoyed my edits. To see more great versions of this photo, click the button below!