I used the border overlay twice to get a little better coverage of darker colour. Once on the edge, and then a smaller version inside of that, and used a mask to blend the edges, and any bits I didn't like. I also used three solid colour filters, with masks, (brown, green and blue) to tone the colours on the inner circle. I also used a screen filter and a multiply filter, with GB and masks, to intensify the colour, and highlight the contrasts. Then a bit of dodge and burn, and finally a small crop and a curves layer.
A fairy tale image, looks like there might be a fairy godmother or a poisoned apple in the story. The dark chocolate border seems both a prison & a citadel.
Oh - fairy tale illustration here. Is she seeing her true evil self in the reflection, or is it about to take on a life of its own? The way we see her dark brooding eyes makes the beautiful girl rather sinister when we see her in the looking glass. I have found that brushes can really make a photo and indeed this did. I rarely read all of the technical explanations because I'm so intrigued by the finished product that I don't care how you got there. LOL WELL DONE
this is really good...you know if you changed her to B&W it would look like a really cool "old time" photo...excellent notes...thank you so much...I really get alot out of that kind of information...
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