Show Us Your Skills [11-6-10]

I love this week's picture featuring Amanda's niece and her cello. It makes me want to drag my kiddos out to somewhere pretty and have them be my models - again!

Here's the before-editing shot:



And here's mine:

I had a lot of fun "playing" with this picture but I'm not sure how I feel about how it came out. I'm thinking maybe her face is too light? Any thoughts?

My steps for the edit...

1. I used Amanda's tutorial that showed how to give a picture a clean edit

2. I used the MCP Eye Doctor action on her eyes

3. I ran the Everyday Elements Oxford action

4. I cropped the picture some

5. I used the free Touch of Lightness/Touch of Darkness from MCP on the background foliage

6. To bring out the fall colors, I used MCP's Paint on Pop action

7. Last, I gave the picture an over all sharpening using the High Pass Filter