Assignment Five, Part One

Here's the original photo:

The first thing I did was crop the photo.  Then I added a background of a blue sky from another photo I'd taken and erased the original background and stray fly-away hairs.  I then softened the edges so that the edges wouldn't be so harsh, and sharpened this original image.  I burned over her right eye so that it would match her left, then adjusted the hue, saturation and brightness.

Here's the improved photo:

Here's the second photo:

The first thing I did was make a second layer and adjust the brightness and contrast to make the dark background.  Then I erased the people.  For the layer with the people in it, I adjusted brightness and contrast again, and added a hard light filter.  Then I erased the baby's binky strap using the clone stamp.

Here's the improved photo: