Maddy is...

... 8!

[Final shot over on my [url=http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1306257]Kinda Horrigans[/url] journal]

Very very tired as we've been out all day. Edits with this one weren't that many. First of all, did Filter > Distort > Lens Correction and then straightened it. I also used the 'edge extension' funtion when I straightened it so that I didn't have to crop the shot too much. Although this always looks fake, a bit of cloning / burning the edges of a shot normally hides the tell-tale artefacts from doing this. After that, my normal colour pop of using three layers...

Hue/Saturation: +10 saturation
Brightness/Contrast: +10 contrast
Levels: moved the middle slider 10 to the right

... but this time also adjusted the brightness by +25 to lighten the whole thing up. Flattened the layers, then added a new blank layer and used a black brush on about 5% and overlay blend mode to burn the number on the balloon so that stood out nicely and did a teeny bit of dodging and burning* to bring out the texture in her hair. Last thing was to flatten the layers again and do Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen edges just to make sure it was given the smallest bit of sharpening.

And... done!



* dodging is where you lighten an area, burning is where you darken it