My Newborn Baby (first newborn shoot)

[Rebekah5280]

Here are your 2:

Ok.. here is my hack at it. It would be easier to do if you started out with a properly exposed shot. It was underexposed, which doesn't help with the red skin. Anyway, this is more what I would do with this shot.

 

[mindfloodz]

Yeah. that looks much better/ It looks a lot more natural and a touch more soft. I like it. Thank you. Would you mind giving me some pointers as to how you got it to this point?

 

[Rebekah5280]

Sure. I'll try to remember.. that was a few edits ago! lol

I started by increasing the exposure. And adding some sharpness (I think I did because the picture seemed sort of blurry). I zoomed into the face and spot healed the flakes and red spots (not blotches, just the red polka dots). Then I spot healed the red lines (from the diaper). I used my Replace Color tool and selected the brighter reds on the face and changed the hue on the slider a few points and maybe even changed the lightness or the saturation, (can't remember exactly) but just a few points, like 2-4 usually does the trick. Remember that when I'm editing newborns, I'm just looking to tone the redness down.. not remove it completely. I then used a blur brush, set very ver low, to go over all the skin, avoiding the eyes and lips. I Replaced Color again an the fur in the right hand corner to turn it from yello to white and thats what I ended up with. I hope that helps.. I have could have done a few more steps, but I can't really remember exactly what I did.

I know your probably sleep deprived with a new baby around! It gets better!

 

[Actinometro]

Congratulations in double: for your so beautiful daughter and for the photos as well.

 

[mindfloodz]

Thanks Rebekah for all the help!!! Also thank you very much Actinometro for such kind words!

 

[Shoal]

Some of them seem abit soft for me but I still like them. I do like color tones on the first one, I think it suites to have abit of color tone shift for that one.

 

[mindfloodz]

Thank you Shoal... I kind of agree with you.. On the skin itself I kind of like the color shift, but on the fur I like it to be white.

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Congratulations!!!

 

[mindfloodz]

Thank you Georgiegirl, nice edit!