I always start a new year with the goal of taking MORE photos and BETTER photos. Who's with me???? So, let's help one another in this thread. If you have a photo that you love but want some advice to take it to the next level on a technical or editing skills basis, please don't hesitate to post. I'm sure there are a lot of others with the same thoughts who will appreciate all the advice. DISCLAIMER: Please realize that we are first and foremost a scrapbooking site with the purpose of improving our skills for ourselves and our scrapbooks. The purpose here is to ask for and offer constructive criticism. By posting a photo or commenting on anothers' photo, you acknowledge the above statements. You may NOT give or receive negative comments on a personal level. We are all here to help each other =)
I'm starting from scratch this year. For Christmas I got my first DSLR camera!!!! It seems almost everyone in our extended family owns one, so I have used their photos in the past for scrapping, but anything taken by me has been with my cell phone I can't express how excited I am to FINALLY have my own. I look forward to reading this thread along with all of the other photography posts here for some advice.
I love this picture so much but it is very blown out. I would love some editing help to bring back some of the hightlights and such. I use photoshop CC and Lightroom CC (just not as good with LR).
What a beautiful shot! @wendyjc Do you open photos in ACR? You can recover some of the highlights and whites (you can also do this in the layers) Another trick I like to use is to make a new layer and take a soft brush at 10-20% opacity and click on a color of her skin that is less blown out and brush over the blown areas...you can do this with a couple of colors to ensure that you still keep the contour of her face.
That is indeed a great pic. Do you shoot raw? If so, I'm pretty sure it's salvageable using Farrah's tips!! And even if you don't you could always embrace the brightness and use it to your advantage while scrapping it, for examble with blending or other "artsy" techniques!
