Natural,Candid, and Unique, Outdoor Reno Tahoe Family Photography by Julie G

Gotta love that red hair!!  I so enjoy doing fix it Fridays...when I remember that is.  

I started by opening the photo in pse camera raw and adjusted the settings as follows:
exposure -0.15
recovery 30
blacks 50
clarity +50
vibrance +27

I then opened it in PSE 8 and cropped.(on a side note my most wonderful brother in the whole wide world got me the Adobe Master Collection CS5,  I have yet to really sit down and learn everything...theres like 100 different programs on it and its all just a lil overwhelming.  So for now sticking with PSE8)  Anywho, these are the actions I used and how I used them. 

Morgan Kervin
levels work 100%
eye love  2 defined eyes @ 100%, cloned bits of the left eye onto the right and brightened @ 100%

coffeeshop
perfect portrait 3:
remove red from skin @ brush set at 30% opacity layer at 30%
vivid color off
sharpen on
brighten off
urban grit @ 100% for background and 50% for her pretty red hair
eye define @100% for eyes and lips
bright eyes at 100% on right eye
soft glow @ 25% on cheek bones

babypowder room
smoothed skin under eyes @ 20%
lighted skin under eyes @ 60%

flora bella
highlight protection @ 15%

Mcp
touch of light/darkness
darkened the entire photo @ 20%

and finally
sharpen amateur basic portrait sharpen @ 100% and erased from the cheeks
I cannot for the life of me remember where I got this action...I thought it was the Texas chicks blog, but I didnt see it there...
 Hope you like my edit!!

This is the original

And my edit

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