I wanted to share a little before and after with photoshop editing. I aim to be very light-handed with my editing style, a little color and exposure editing, touching up small skin imperfections, and a little color vignetting to bring the focus on baby. I’ve stopped heavily smoothing skin and focusing on a more natural edit. Here was my step by step process for this image:
- Open in Adobe Camera Raw
- Use Erin Tole’s preset “Cool Cicely”
- Adjust white balance and exposure to taste
- Turn on lens calibration
- Open in Photoshop
- Run Erin Tole’s color actions “free” and “chestnut” fade (masked off baby)
- Spot healing brush on little blemishes and flakes on face
- Resize and sharpen for web
What do you think?