Beautiful image Michelle! Thank you so much for sharing it is perfect for this weeks ‘Purple’ theme! 
For portraits I tend to prefer a nice clean edit. The little girl is darling and I didn’t want processing to distract. So I kept the edit quite simple, here is the workflow…
- I imported into Lightroom 2, cropped slightly and applied Clayton preset from One Willow Presets. Then I adjusted the tone curve to brighten up the image a little more.
- I exported the image into Photoshop and duplicated the background layer. Using the spot tool to cover a few areas of dryness on her lips. I also used a soft brush on 11% opacity (I used the eye dropper tool to grab the color from her skin for this) to fill the shadows under eyes slightly.
- Next I ran the Lilac Action from Florabella Collection on 30% opacity and using the layers and layer masks tweaked until I had the look I wanted.
- I noticed some blue tint in the whites of her eyes so I created an adjustment layer with Selective Color and adjusted the ‘whites’ by pulling back the cyan and up the magenta and black.
- In my last glance I felt I wanted the tones a bit warmer so I ran the Soft Sunshine Action by Florabella Collection on 30% opacity and using a layer mask with a soft brush erased it over her teeth and eyes.
- Lastly, I finished it up with a quick Sharpen.
Jessica Paige is a natural light photographer and the designer of One Willow Presets. You can see more of her work by visiting her photography site, One Willow Studios and the One Willow Boutique. She can also be found on her One Willow Presets Facebook Page.
