New take on Cross Processing

I was looking through some summer pictures the other day as to whether to process some of them to turn them into keepers.

I came across a photo I had taken of my friends daughter whilst we were having lunch with his family. I put my cropping hat on and reined in the frame and got to what i thought was a close enough, intresting shot.

I sharpened the eyes, i like practising this technique! I removed some blemishes on her nose, selected the teeth and whitened them by using the dodge tool (3 clicks at 69 hardness).

I then used the cross process filter in curves to cross process the picture and give it a more retro look. I think it works well.

My only regret being that i took this as a snap as opposed to a staged portrait and had the pushchair in teh background. Im still happy with the outcome, i dont think this picture would date as much as its unprocessed predecessor.



Obviously you sill see more detail in the lager version.