Theme Thursday – Before and After

I’m looking forward to what you can come up with this theme! 🙂

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Today I thought I would show some photos and the edits I made to them to bring them up a notch.  I’m always interested in the SOOC shots and then the edits to make them “pop”.  Sometimes a different crop, or just turning a photo to black and white can turn a so-so picture into one that you will love.

SOOC:

EDITED:

Edit technique:        Basic editing that I normally do, but I started by duplicating the background layer and changing the blending mode to “screen”.  This was taken at dusk so it was a little dark.  I love the rich colors in the photo, though.

SOOC:

EDITED:

Edit technique:  I converted to black and white basically using this method (the Photoshop version).  I usually add a curves/levels layer in and add contrast.  I had to erase parts of the levels/curves layer because it caused the whites in her jacket to “blow”. 

SOOC:

EDITED:

Edit technique:   Just my basic editing and a tighter crop.     

SOOC:

 Edited:

Editing process:  I used the color pop method and a tighter crop. 

Hope you found this interesting. 🙂

See you on Thursday!