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I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

April 23rd, 2010

The past year I have learned tons about post-processing digital photos.  Because I’m a frugal broke gal, I’ve been using GIMP (a free, open-source, graphics editing program).  Although not as user-friendly as Lightroom or even Photoshop Elements, it’s very powerful for free software.Here’s an example of how I like to “fix-it” photos.

1. Open photo in GIMP.

2.  Crop using a 2:3 aspect ratio which is like 4×6.

3.  Use the clone tool to airbrush the white spot the falling snowflake created on her forehead.  (Opacity=50.5, Brush=fuzzy circle at size 3.00).

4. Go to Colors>Levels and use auto-level.

5. Up the Saturation 20.

6.  Use smart select to select as much of her irises as possible.  Feather 5.0.

7. Up the saturation overall and of the blue and cyan colors by 10 each.  Up the brightness and contrast of the eyes by 10 each

8. Unselect her eyes.

9.  Create an oval vignette by feathering 500 and moving the mid-tones level triangle to 0.20.

Before
fixit51

After
fixit51-edit

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