Svetozar's Sister

Svetozar Stefanov is a contributing member over at Fred Miranda and he shot this great image of his sister. It was discussed on the forum at FredMiranda.com that the skin tones were on the orange side.

I focused first on the white balance using the levels tool and the mid tone eyedropper. I just picked a few tones that i though made the skin look a bit more natural and ended up with what you see below. I also did some work with light painting to even out the exposures and further focus the eye on the woman's face by reducing brighter elements in the shot.


This is the before and after comparison.


This is the after shot all by itself.


Here we have a black & white conversion made using the channel mixer... my favorite.


And finally we have a screen capture of all the PhotoShop™ layers used in making the shot. You can see the various layers labeled as to their function in the retouch.

See more of Svetozar's work at photo-journal.net/