Self Portraits

FACE

To make this image I used the free select to single out my face and then used the inverse function to select everything else. I brought down the saturation level of the inverse selection to -37. In order to achieve the higher contrast throughout the image the dark strokes emphasized the shadows on my face.

1. Saturation adjustment
2. Dark strokes

FINGERS

Here I first used Gaussian blur at 8.6 pixels, and then adjusted the color balances between the fingers to emphasize sections of red, blue and green. Using the liquify tool I swirled the colored spaces in between the fingers.

3. Gaussian blur
4. Color balance adjust
5. Liquify

IN MY VIEW

For this picture I wanted to show what a landscape picture looks like from my perspective when my bangs have grown too long. To add more color in the sunset and in the hair I raised the saturation level to +37 and the contrast to +20. The curves function helped to raise the green input level to 29.

6. Contrast adjustment
7. Curves adjustment