Before and After

I had so much fun last week editing a photo and sharing it. I also loved checking out every one's links over at Monica's blog. She is having another photo editing blog hop today. Go check out her blog and every one's entries!

Here is my before picture. I love this picture of my husband and my son. I love Bradley holding on to his Daddy's shirt and looking so happy in his arms. I love that David's eyes are closed as if he is full of so much love for his son.
I took this with my point and shoot camera. I posted about this day trip we took here, in September.

This is my edit. I love the rounded corner look so I moved the "Amount" in Highlighting priority, under "Effects", all the way to the right. Then, the three underneath, I moved all the way to the left.
I made the Temperature warmer and I moved the Tint slightly to the left. Then, I moved Saturation almost all the way to the left and I bumped up the Vibrance and Clarity.
I also moved the Lens Vignetting all the way to the left and played with the Tone Curve to make it a little brighter.

That second picture was my personal edit. I played around with the settings in LR Beta 3, until I saw something I liked. I'm not entirely happy with it. I think my son's face has a little too much pink in it and his hair is a little green, but I had a hard time trying to figure that out.

Here is another edit. I gave the picture rounded corners using Gimp. Then, I used a preset from Preset Heaven.
It appears that I cannot get rid of that black rectangle around my photo when I round the corners. I tried Highlighting priority with Lightroom, above, and then with Gimp, below. Any suggestions how to round corners without the black edge?


Here is an edit with a preset that I downloaded from Preset Heaven.
I really like this look.

That was fun. I love this photo of David and Bradley. I think I like the second edit better, the downloaded preset with curved corners from Gimp, what do you think?