I thought I would blog an image and show a little bit of what I normally do as far as my editing. I took the following photo at about 5:45 in the evening last December... so it was getting dark fast. The settings on this image were at ISO 200, F/1.8 and a shutter speed of 1/80. As you can see the image was a little bit too cold temperature-wise. You can see how blue and dark the sky was in the reflection of her eyes.
I warmed up the image, did some minor retouching on her skin, and whitened her teeth a little bit. I realized then that the image didn't look right after warming it up because there was still the blue sky in her eyes. To fix that, I desaturated that color and lightened it up with an adjustment layer in Hue/Saturation. I also added a Vignette and finally, I sharpened the photo.
This is probably the most I do to an image. Typically all I do is change the color temp., sharpen up the image and call it done. Hopefully that brought you some insight into my post- processing! :)
Here is the Straight Out of the Camera shot and the final Edit:
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