Before & After | clean up.

I really love simple images.  Whenever I’m in the editing process I invest a lot of time in perfecting the image.  In the “before” image below, I couldn’t avoid certain distracting elements.  So in the post-processing stage I spent some time making them disappear.

For those of you interested, this is how I edited the image
- To give it a little more pop, I adjusted the curves to make the blacks black and the whites white.
- Then I cropped in.
- From there, I selected the picture and fixed the perspective under transform, as well as, warp to adjust the stripes.
- I didn’t like the blue stripe on the far right, so I copied one of the blue stripes from the left and straightened it.
- To remove the reflections of me and the dad, I used the stamp tool at 37% opacity and the patch tool to make us and the reflection of the window disappear.
-  I then used the stamp tool at 37% again to soften the wrinkles. (A trick I learned from Blogshop and Bri/angela!)
- Then I was done!