It's time again for another weekend recipe!

Today, I will show you how to take this photo from this:



To this:

So, very simple, light, and airy  :)

Photoshop Cs4 (may work in other versions of photoshop)

First, my white balance was a little off and I've got some funky colors going on in the background.  To fix that, I used my lasso tool to select the background (there are many different ways to do this, I just pick whatever's easiest for me).  I then created a hue/saturation adjustment layer and brought down the cyan, blue, and yellow sliders.

I then brightened up the whole picture by duplicating the layer and setting it to screen at a very low opacity (like 15%).  I then followed the steps from my skin smoothing tutorial to even out her skin a little bit.  Don't over do this part because you don't want your subject to look like a porcelain doll.

I then ran Classic Color from Florabella's Classic Workflow set.  I use this action at a very low opacity (like 25%) to add just a bit of pop to the photo.  Then I run my favorite action, Milk, from Florabella's Luxe II action set.  I ungroup the layers and adjust each one as so:  warm haze (15%), turn off cool haze, turn off more haze, pure milk (5%), tone (10%), contrast (10%),  lighten (10%).  Now of course all of these numbers depend on what photo you are working on and what kind of look you are going for.  In this photo, I was going for light, soft, and creamy, but not too much.  Don't be afraid to mess around with your settings.

I also last minute cloned out the teddy bear poking up (and I didn't do a very good job, because I just noticed it before I was about to post this!  lol).

and wa-la!

Feel free to share links in the comment section below if you try out this recipe!  ;)

I'm a couple days late for this to be a weekend recipe (oops!) but I'll go ahead and post it anyways  ;)

Today, I will be taking this photo from this:

To this:

Ingredients:

Photoshop CS4

Steps:

First, I used Keri Meyers action 'Take the Red Out' and adjusted the opacity to 75%

He had a sore on the tip of his nose so I used my patch tool to get rid of it

Then I used the spot healing brush to remove all the little blemishes on his cheeks (and anywhere else I saw them)

I then went through all the steps of my skin smoothing tutorial found here and adjusted the opacity to 50%

To make the photo pop a little bit, I ran Florabella's Classic Color from the Classic Workflow collection and adjusted the opacity to 40%

Now, you could be done here, but I like to add a bit of extra softness by running Florabella's Milk action from the Luxe II collection.  I adjust the layers as such:  turn off the warm haze layer, turn of the more haze layer, pure milk (5-7%),  tone (10%), contrast (10%), lighten (10%)

and wah-la! All finished  :)

If you try this recipe out, please share a link in the comment section below!  I'd love to see  :)