Touch Up Tuesday: Valentines Photo

*Sorry guys! I had the Touch Up Tuesday scheduled... but, blogger failed to post it. Oh well... here it is!*

This photo was NOT taken by me. It was taken by a customer of mine. I do some photo editing. You are welcome to check out my Paper Mama Shop.

After:

Edit: First I did the basics ... Contrast and Brightness ... I flattened the image and made a duplicate of the merged layer. I set the new layer to Soft Light and lowered the opacity to really give it a pop. Then, like last week, I decided to play with multiple (4 to be exact) bokeh layers set to different blending modes like Overlay, Soft Light, and Screen. My customer wants this for a Valentine's card. Erasing any of the layer over the little girl and adjusting opacity to my taste.

If you're interested in the pretty bokeh textures that I used... I downloaded them from here: Bokeh Life Textures. There are 10 different bokeh's. Very pretty. Free.

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Link up your Touch Ups below! Linky's always close at 11:59 PM Wednesday evenings (Pacific time).

 

Enter your Valentine's Photo:

So, I'm bringing up this Valentine's edit with you guys because I have have a Valentine's Photo challenge happening over at my Paper Mama blog! Lots of prizes for photography lovers! Please, check it out and enter your photo! Ends Friday!!!!