A friend of mine and his wife recently had a new baby. Today, he uploaded some photos to show everyone. They're all the usual kind of family snapshots, but I can't help myself when I see photos like that, I just get an itchy mouse finger and want to start cropping and dodging and burning, etc. So, here are a couple of pictures I played with (in the Gimp):
Quiana - before, after.
Tim, wife and baby - before, after.
The manipulation I did is intentionally WAY too cute, but what else do you do with baby photos? :).
I used Neatimage after cropping the second one to remove some noise. On both of them I did levels and curves adjustments, dodged the heaviest shadows (burned the really bright parts in the 2nd photo), duplicated a layer, blurred it and adjusted the opacity (in the 2nd one I used "screen" mode), and created a border. In the first one I found that if I adjusted the levels to bring out the colours of the suit, towel and blanket, the baby's skin went a dark red colour, so I selected out the face and hands, put them on a separate layer, and did those adustments on the two parts of the image separately. In the 2nd one I cloned out the wires behind Tim's head and the computer monitor.
Of course, most of this is DPC illegal, but what the hey! :)
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