What is your main focus?

 

This is a pic of my nephew.  My sister is going to give him his first hair cut so she wanted me to take some pictures and edit them for her.  Well of course I used Picmonkey.com to edit them.

 

 

 

First I started by cropping  the picture in Basic Edits.  I didn't want the whole back ground to show.  When you crop, you have to find the main focus and make sure that it is centered in the picture.  In this picture, I wanted the eyes to be the main focus.

 

 

I then went into the Touch up section.  I used the blemish tab to lighten out any little red spot on his beautiful face, and then used airbrush to smooth his cheeks and chin out.  I then used mascara to bring out eyes mouth and hair.  After that I used eye brighten to make his eyes stand out.

 

 

 

 

 

I used Orton but only a little of it.  When you click on a tab it always changes the picture half way.  You can choose to intensify it by choosing more or de-intensify it by choosing less. for this picture I used less.  I went into boost and used a tinny, tinny bit.  I wanted this picture to look intense to I darkened the edges a bit.  I normally don't do that but I think I looks great on this picture. 

 

Editing is an art.  It does take a while to make the picture come out the way you intend it to.  If it doesn't just back up to the beginning and start again.  The wait is worth it :)