LightningPaul

Very cute toddler who likes to eat something sweet during sunset.


TECH-INFO: I've been working mostly with adjustment layers in Photoshop Element to improve the image. The original is very similar but I did a bunch of (very) small corrections which yielded a very nice result in my opinion. I'm not a photoshop specialist, just a beginner with limited experiences of several weeks. It is all done on a single JPG file.
The image is shot in June and she was bitten quiet a lot by mosquitoes. Using the healing brush and the clone stamp I removed them. I used a very slight Gaussian blur except on the yes and the lollipop to emphasize them a little more. Despites the image has warm colors, I enhanced it a little bit using a warm filter. I could have achieved the same by setting my white balance on a shade setting. But at the moment I shot I didn't. The eyes are made a bit lighter and the hue of iris is shifted from green close to blue. This color in combination with the red lollipop and sunny orange skin makes the image much more balanced and attractive. Finally I added a darkening vignet but only on the top half of the image and a lightening vignet only at the bottom half. These small changes improve the background a lot.
I really tried to keep to authenticity of the girl and I feel I did, except perhaps for the color of eyes. But on the otherhand I think it lifts the image a lot.