How would you fix this RAW of 2 baby snow leopards

[DanThePhotoMan]

I'm a huge fan of eyes that pop, so I did a little saturation adjustment for him. But yeah, basically the same as everyone else: upped contrast and clarity, and vuala!

[Dylan777]

With my ave Joe's PP skill in LR4 - 7mins of work

[lostfeliz]

Give it a whirl in LR4.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wytd9qbilezmmpq/20130313_2013-03-13%20um%2012-26-45.jpg

[Roger Jones]

silver efx

[PTT]

I felt a portrait crop of the head resulted in a strong photograph.  Removed twigs and other distractions around the right and bottom edges. Brightened and sharpened the eye. Set white balance off the whiskers. Camera RAW first then clean-up in Photoshop.  A fun few minutes.

[BrandonKing96]

This is done with Photoshop CS5 and just resized in an application called Photoscape.
The colours on my laptop are a bit wonky, so I hope that this came out fine. MIght be a tad too bright.

[cosminelfloricel]

This is mi take, but just standard processing. Some contrast, sharpness, and some color fixing

[saizo]

ACR https://www.dropbox.com/s/0y03dn5j542fxyf/2013-03-13%20um%2012-26-45.xmp

CS6 only to remove twig to the heart 

[mdmphoto]

First two in Lightroom 4: Custom WB from foreground snow: exposure, clarity shadows, contrast: adj brush clarity, saturation, to big cat; desaturated background snow. Cropped one.

Second two CS5 RAW: Custom WB off snow in foreground
Exp .33  rec. 28 Blacks 55 brightness 30 contrast 46 clarity 35 vibrance 10 saturation -6, adj brush clarity exp brightness to eye.  Cropped one.

[NotABunny]

Lightroom 4

Brilliant! I don't understand why most are trying to warm it up. It's unnatural.

I'm surprised by how bad the noise looks at ISO 400, even with LR 4. I guess it's the sharpening (lots of clarity perhaps?!).

[ecka]

LR4

[propellerhead]

Hi!

Here's my take:


All The Best!
Leszek

[J.R.]

Interesting to see how everyone's edits are so different. Here are mine - worked on them approximately 5-7 mins.

[Harv]

I also felt this image lent itself to a portrait crop.  When I cropped it in DPP, I also eliminated all in-camera sharpening as well as some color correction using 'click white balance' on the whiskers as others have done.

I moved the file into CS4 where I cloned out some distracting elements in the lower right of the frame, followed by re-sizing.  I then adjusted the highlight and mid-tone contrast, increasing them slightly.  I sharpened the image in Lab Mode to avoid artifacts and halos.

Here is the result...

[Canon-F1]

imho all the warm toning destroys the mood.