I’m always disappointed when I Heart Faces takes a week off from their usual photo challenges and Fix-it Fridays. However, I still had a couple of photos that I put into my folder for such an occasion, so I pulled one out today. This is Moses. I knew that I wasn’t going to make this a crystal-clear sharp photo, so I went the other direction. First, I cleaned up his face a little (but I didn’t use Powder Room) – I just used the eye dropper to select an area of his face and then painted over his skin to create an even skin tone. Next, I used Coffeeshop’s Orton....

In the previous post, I shared the new “Squeaky Clean” action. In this post, I thought I’d share a few more examples using Kristen’s beautiful family. I believe these were taken on Easter. If I’m honest, I kept putting these off because I was a bit intimidated by the exposure and didn’t want to screw it up. I may still have screwed them up, but I gave it my best effort. With each of these, I started by selecting the background and doing a levels adjustment. I then ran the Squeaky Clean action (adding a brightening step) and adjusted each layer based on the...