I ♥ Faces: Fix it Friday #31

First I want to thank everyone for the wonderful response to my fantasy tutorial over on the I ♥ Faces blog. I had a question about what to do for boys. Fortunately this week’s Fix it Friday picture is of a little boy. Now he needed a 2nd shoulder and a piece of ear, so I copied his left shoulder, pasted it to a new layer, moved it around and did some cloning. For  the ear, it’s actually my ear, LOL. I found a picture of me at the right angle and just copied the ear to a new layer. I burned, dodged, cloned and erased until it looked like a whole ear. Web size you can’t really tell. On a full resolution and with access to all the pictures from this shoot, I would clone his ear and hot mine, LOL.

So here’s a straight color edit with a crop:

And a b/w conversion (simple gradient map with a bump in curves).

Then the fantasy picture:

All the supplies here are from a digital scrapbooking kit called Steampunk. You can find it here: ScrapbookGraphics. I also used the Golden Vintage action by CoffeeShop and the sandstone texture in PSE5. This was a lot of fun to work on. I hope it inspires you to do fantasy projects for little boys, too.