Editing Portraits

Match Color - 

5/31/2010, 12:29 PM, F/5.0, 1/15, Layton, Utah, Canon Powershot SD780 IS

I took a picture that I really liked of my cousin, but I didn't turn on my flash so it was underexposed.  I really liked the color of a picture I took outside of my other cousin, so I opened them both in Photoshop, and used the Match Color tool to replicate the color in the outside picture.  I then increased the Luminance to 114 and the color intensity to 155.

Retouch - 

5/31/2010, 3:47 PM, F/3.2, 1/30, Layton Utah, Canon Powershot SD780 IS

I decided to take a picture of my cousin who had a dirty face after eating a hot dog.  I shot it using the auto feature on my camera.  I used the spot healing brush to do the retouches on the right side of the face.  It did really well covering up the little spots that were there.  On the left side I used the healing brush tool, sampling pixels around the part that I wanted to fix.  It took awhile to finally get it right.  I didn't make any other edits than retouching so the retouches would be easier to see.

Replace Color -

5/31/2010, 4:17 PM, F/5.8, 1/160, Layton Utah, Canon Powershot SD780 IS

I took this picture of my cousin on the swing using the auto feature on my camera.  I like the shovel she was holding, but I wished it matched.  Well good thing I know how to change the color!  I selected it using the quick select tool, then I went into the color replace tool and put the fuzziness at the highest level, and then changed it to a pink that matched her shirt.  Perfect!