Edit in Photoshop:
- Use Liquify to make her smile
- USM
- Gaussian blur, mask back in detail
- New layer via copy > Dodge and burn eyes > Lower opacity of layer
- Use selective color to adjust the color of the lips and hair on model's right
- A little more spot editing, including removing a light spill on her nose
- New layer > Paint eye color > Change layer's blending mode to color dodge > Lower opacity of layer
- Adjustment Curves layer > adjust Red, Green, and Blue separately to lighten skin > Mask back in some hair and shoulder/thumb
- Resize
- Save
Possible criticisms:
- Needs to see more dress to be a fashion shot
- Eyes look a little fake
- Not terribly exciting (the print looks incredible though!)
- Don't like the blown-out-ish highlights on hair
About the title -- I really hate trying to come up with titles, so I usually have other people do it for me. This time, I typed "yellow" in at thesaurus.com and chose a word that hopefully most people won't know. My reasoning for that is it will place less emphasis on the title and more on the photo. Who knows if that's true. It still fits though; besides meaning "yellow" (as in her shirt, of course), it also means "blond, light-skinned races of Europe."
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