Before & After Newborn Session Edit - Spokane Newborn Photographer

I hope everyone is fully enjoying this beautiful 4th of July :)

I thought it would be nice to introduce a little 'Before & After' edit for all of the clients and followers that were wondering what exactly goes into retouching an entire session for your newborn. It's a lot of work!
 
Each image takes roughly 10-15 minutes: Between scratches, red blotches, diaper rash, red/blue hands and feet from lack of circulation, flaky skin, jaundice, any birth marks or bruises from labor, it can be quite a chore to make each image look as perfect as possible. Below, is the final image that the client would receive:

Here are the steps I took to achieve this gorgeous baby:

1. Cloned out all the red imperfections, such as scratches and red blotches
2. Cloned out wrinkles in the background blanket
3. Sharpened and brightened slightly
4. Used Gradient tool to fade out the background blanket, used brush to paint off color from baby
5. Warming tone to brighten baby's skin
6. Anti-Red foot paint tool on hands, feet, and face
7. Smoothed the skin
8. Sharpened the lips and wrinkles on baby
9. Used dodge/burn tool to highlight and darken certain areas on baby

{ DONE! *whew* }

Here is the before and after, side-by-side. What a difference it made!!: