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overexposed – redo

Donna over at Double Happiness whipped this ‘fix-it Friday’ for my overexposed beach pix…


Thanks, girlfriend!! I love it!

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  1. Donna says

    July 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM

    Okay, now I'm embarrassed. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I'm glad you liked it! I just hate to see a great photo go to waste. At least you kept yours…. I usually delete them if I don't think I have time to fix 'em.

    Fixing your photo was fun though. I wish every problem in life could be so easily fixed!

    ๐Ÿ™‚

    Donna
    Our Blog: Double Happiness!

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  2. sara says

    July 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM

    Umm..amazing ๐Ÿ™‚ Donna did a great job – and the picture was DEFINITELY worth keeping!!

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  3. DiJo says

    July 25, 2009 at 3:00 AM

    Oh, I really need to learn how to do that!!! It is fantastic!!!!

    Hugs,
    Diana

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  4. Melissa says

    July 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM

    Wow, that looks great! That's a beautiful beach!

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  5. rem says

    July 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM

    I didn't know you could do that! Wow, I am so tech challenged. Great pictures.

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  6. a Tonggu Momma says

    July 25, 2009 at 5:38 PM

    Umm… Donna? How did you DO that? It's gorgeous. And I wanna copy. Please, please – tutorial needed.

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  7. Donna says

    July 26, 2009 at 5:12 AM

    Thanks, everyone!

    Really, it's not that hard to fix most photos. I don't use photoshop but I'm sure it's even easier if you do! I use Paintshop Pro and I usually fix overexposed photos by tweaking the contrast and saturation. But when there's a person in the photo, it's important to work in layers so you can exclude the skin tones from being part of some of the adjustments. If you don't do this, you'll have bright blue ocean water and golden sand but also ORANGE fleshtones!

    In a nutshell, I make two copies of the photo and I fix the people first. Then I fix the background on the second copy then layer one on top of the other and 'erase' the parts of the top layer where I want the bottom layer to peek through. It might sound hard but it's pretty easy.

    You just have to play around and see what looks best.

    Donna
    Our blog: Double Happiness!

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