Fix it Friday 171

I love doing these challenges at IHF.  They give me a chance to play in Photoshop, and edit in ways that I don’t normally.  I love everything about this photo, and I hope I’ve done it justice!!

I opened this as a raw file in PSE8 (my old faithful…I know I know)

I adjusted the white balance to Temperature –18 and Tint +25, and upped the exposure to +35 and then I opened the image to PSE.

Then I ran Florabella’s “Ruby”.  I upped my soft center light to 35%, the gradient contrast I knocked down to 60%.

I flattened the image and saved.  I didn’t sharpen this at all, it just took away from the “whimsy” of the image. 

This is the original

And this is my edit