This Should Have Been A Friday Before-After Thing… But… Next Time

 

This should have been a Friday Before-After Challenge thing, but I did not read the rules.. Sorry, Stacey!

Anyway, the above is the original image…

The image below is the one that I finally ended up with…

So, what did I do?

I converted the image into a smart object.

The entire edit was done using Nik’s Color Efex Pro, thereafter

Step One. I used the “Foliage Filter” using the drop down in the Nature set of presets, and then I used a green look

 

Step Two. I added a “Fog Filter”

Step Three. Going to the Portrait Section, I added a pastel filer

Step Five. I darkened the centre and lightened the borders

 

Step Six. I added a vignette. The fun here, was that I changed the colour of the vignette.

Step Seven. The Last. I exported it back to Photoshop, and made some global changes in the HSL slider. And, that was it