I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

It's been a while since I participated in IHF's FIF.  The photo today was so adorable, I just couldn't resist editing the photo of these 2 beauties.
(Original photo by Angie Arthur).

Straight out of Camera

Colour Edit

B&W Edit

Sepia Edit

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

I did not much to this photo, as I found it difficult to work with: the photo I downloaded was a small JPEG file. Oh, how I wish they would put the RAW files on IHF for us to download & edit!

The original:

My edits:

I lightened the skin & eyes then made the background B&W.

Check out some other photo edits here.

I Heart Faces: "All About Babies" Photo Challenge

This photo of my son was taken when he was only 6 days old.

Check out other great IHF photo entries here.

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

It's Fix-It Friday #58 here at i heart faces and this week's photo was submitted by our IHF Contributor, Susan Keller from Short on Words.

The original:

My edit: vintage, B&W, vingnette

Check out other IHF FIF here.

I Heart Faces: Play

I Heart Faces' theme for the week is "Play" - oh, what fun!

I have so many photos, but this photo jumped out at me when I was considering a photo for this entry. In April when we were at a family reunion, I snagged this photo of my husband's cousin's daughter playing the piano. I simply vintaged the photo & added a border.

Play on, Miss K!

Check out more "Play" entries here.

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

For some reason, Fridays seem to be busy days for me, but yet I find time for IHF's FIF photos. It's so fun to edit a photo then check out how other photographers edit the same photo.

Here is a photo that was originally taken by Andrea Riley:

My edit #1 (Sepia tones):

My Edit #2 (B&W + Vintage tones)

Check out other IHF's FIF photo edits here.

I Heart Faces: "Barefoot Week" Photo Challenge

This week, the photo challenge at IHF is bringing attention to a charitable organization called Soles 4 Souls.

Soles4Souls is a Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you. The charity distributes these shoes free of charge to people in need, regardless of race, religion, class, or any other criteria. Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away over 7 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes (currently donating one pair every 9 seconds.) The shoes have been distributed to people in over 125 countries, including Kenya, Thailand, Nepal and the United States. Anyone can join our cause, and we need your help.

In May I took this photo of my son playing in the grass for the first time (yes, it has been a very, very long Calgary winter!!)

However, I wanted to do something unusual with this photo... I antiqued it then added the polaroid border.

Check out more "Barefoot" photo challenges at I Heart Faces.

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

Every Fix-It Friday at IHF, I am always wondering if the photo this week will be a boy or a girl. Oh, I was so excited it was one of each... & Twins, too!! (I am still wanting to find some twins for my photo sessions, folks!!)

I am just looooooving this picture of these precious little 6 week-old twins, children to JaimeLee Candidly Grateful.

The original:

My edit:

I added some gaussian blur to the skin, converted the pic to CS's B&W (70%), adjusted some levels, added a 70% High Key, cropped, then added a frame. Very simple.

Check out other great photo edits here.

I Heart Faces: "Yellow" Photo Challenge

This week's photo challenge theme at I Heart Faces is "Yellow."

What to do when you don't have a yellow house, yellow wall, yellow clothing, or big field of yellow flowers????!! Oh, and I have a boy... and boys don't generally wear yellow!

So, I looked around the house... and found this pale yellow laundry bag... placed my 8-month-old son in the yellow bag... and this is the result.

Check out more great "yellow" photos here.

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

It's that time of the week again... our turn to learn new editing trick from other contributors to I Heart Faces and to play along as well.

This week's photo was submitted by Shelle from Mommy Can't Sing.

Here's the original:

My Fix-It #1... I adjusted levels, curves, colour balance, then added gaussian blur to soften the face. I then did some adjustments to lighten skin & eyes and give the skin some glow.

My Fix-It #2: I converted the pic to B&W but did some colourizing. Not to crazy about this one as there is so much noise on the pic that I wasn't able to remove.

Fix-It #3: I darkened the background, added a gradient and a texture (just for something different) then brought in some colour.

Fix-It #4: I like this one the best. It's basically the same as Fix-It #3 but I removed the texture then added some vignette & borders.

Check out other great photo edits at I Heart Faces.

I Heart Faces: Faces & Flowers

This week's photo challenge at I Heart Faces is "Faces & Flowers."

Last month was my husband's grandmother's 90th birthday. Her 8 children had a song sung while they presented their mother with roses. Grandma was very touched by this gesture.

I just love this photo of Grandma on her 90th birthday. I added 2 textures & a frame to give the photo an aged look.

Check out other great photo challenge entries here.

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

It's Fix-It Friday at I Heart Faces, and it's time to have fun again!

Here's the BEFORE photo of Angie's daughter:

My "AFTER" edit:

Here's what I did:

- cloned out the signs

- changed the background to B&W

- added 3 texture layers

- added a vignette

- added a black frame

Check out more "fix-it" photos here.

I Heart Faces: Smiles

Boy + First Swing Ride = All Smiles!

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I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

The original:

My fix-it attempt:

Head over to I Heart Faces to check out the other contributors' great fix-it photos!

I Heart Faces: Chocolate Pudding Delight

This week's photo challenge for "i Heart Faces" is Desserts.

I love to cook, and baking is low on the to-do lists! Admittedly, I'm not really a dessert fan, and I don't take photos of desserts.

This past Saturday, we let our 7-month-old son have his first taste-test of a dessert: Chocolate Pudding. Oh, how he loved it... & he made a scrumptious mess! Life's too short not to have fun!

So here's my son after he tackled & enjoyed Chocolate Pudding!! What a treat! Yum!!

Check out other great dessert photos here.

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

This is my first entry for iheartfaces "Fix-It Friday" in which we attempt to fix a photo taken by another member on this website. This was fun, playing around with photoshop & trying to "fix" another person's photo.

This photo of Violet is from Jessie at The Lucas Zoo. Isn't she just darling?!!

The Original:

Fix-It #1: I added a vintage action; adjusted vibrance, levels & curves; added a texture, vignette then a frame.

Fix-It #2: This is a less-dramatic fix... brightened, increased colour with actions; dodge/burn; soften skin, add vignette then frame.

Check out this week's challenge & other edits here.

I Heart Faces: Dramatic Black & White

This is my second "I Heart Faces" photo challenge, and I wanted to challenge myself by venturing onto new learning paths.

There were so many photos to consider, but I liked this photo of the blind beggar lady that I encountered during my travels in India in 2005. This lady was standing outside the gated area where a wedding was taking place. It was very interesting for me to watch part of the Indian wedding ceremony. Guests were coming & going; a beautiful white cart decorated with flowers and 2 horses were at the ready to whisk the bridal couple away. There was such a contrast of colour & festivities vs the lone woman in drab clothing begging for a few rupees.

The original colour photo was quite drab looking and I just "didn't know what to do" with that photo. (If you would like to see the original photo, I've added it on my blog after this entry.) Thanks to this photo challenge, here's what I did to create the finished "dramatic" look:

• convert photo to B&W
• run a portrait action
• add vibrance
• add 2 textures
• make needed adjustments (levels, curves)
• burn around the edges
• add a vignette
• frame

Check out some of the other participants photos here.