It's the Little Things

I didn't have as much time to play with photos as I'd hoped today, but I really miss it when I cannot participate in at least one of the Tuesday Challenges.  Since what I was spending my free time on was looking at past photos and trying to eliminate some of them, I came across this personal favorite of mine of Sunflower at 4 1/2 months.  I thought it would be perfect for Texture Tuesday's "It's the Little Things" edition, since she isn't so little anymore.

Original

Of course it needed a little editing in order to fit the rules of Texture Tuesday~use one of Kim Klassen's fabulous textures.

It is kind of funny what I ended up doing here.  First I ran a softening action~twice, but only on the background.  I masked Sunflower off.  Then I used the CoffeeShop's Perfect Portrait 3 for skin softening, but I lowered that down to 38%; even still it might have taken away more detail than I intended.  I also used the soft glow layer on her face (18%).  Now here is where I have to laugh.  I had softened to death the background, but I needed to use a texture. So I added Kim Klassen's Canvas Magic~screen layer per her tip.  LOVE it!  But her face...well, not so pretty, so I circled her again, but this time used a Gaussian blur on the part in the circle to remove the texture from the texture but keep the color.  Seems kind of silly that I used so many different softening methods to make a picture with textures.

Anyway, the important thing to note is this is Canvas Magic on 100% screen mode~awesome!  Now I am tempted to edit even more of my old pictures; I may not have time to take new ones!