A friend of mine asked me to take pictures of her daughter's debut. My first attempt at "professional" photography.
1. Edited using Photoshop elements 4:
2. Auto smart fix
3. Color Variations; lightened midtones, darkened shadows, decreased red and darked highlights, increased saturation.
4. Unsharpmask
5. Reduced Noise
6. Cropped
7. Cloned
8. Made a duplilcate layer
9. Decreased Hue/Saturation and lightened a tiny bit.
10. Used gausin blur to soften
11. Went over my models with my tool brush.
12. Decreased Red
13. Added Borders
14. Saved for web
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This is such a cute, fun shot. I love the look like they are playing in the woods. And their being all dressed up in white adds a fairy tale like quality to the photo. This is awesome!