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truetifoso
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
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Location: Southern California
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 Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject: Dark picture with great potential |
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I have a series of pictures that look like the one attached.
I think that there is potential for these shots to look really good, but right now they seem to dark.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to improve the pictures?
Thanks in advance for your help. |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 3987
Location: Cheltenham, UK
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Hi, nice photo. It is not a problem to colour correct the images if that's what you want. I thought that it deserved a slightly vintage treatment and so didn't fight the darkness so much. I added a slight cross process tone to emphasise that 'vintage' feel, bit of noise, duplicated the layer set to screen at around 40% and then added a vignette on a separate layer.
If you just want to do a simple lighten of the photos duplicate the layer and set it to screen (repeat until blind).
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seaco
Joined: 31 Dec 2009
Posts: 729
Location: UK
PS Version: CC
OS: Windows 10
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Cut out the lad put him on a new layer lighten the background add a little saturation and Gaussian blur, lighten the shadows on the lad...
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truetifoso
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
Posts: 16
Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| thehermit wrote: | Hi, nice photo. It is not a problem to colour correct the images if that's what you want. I thought that it deserved a slightly vintage treatment and so didn't fight the darkness so much. I added a slight cross process tone to emphasise that 'vintage' feel, bit of noise, duplicated the layer set to screen at around 40% and then added a vignette on a separate layer.
If you just want to do a simple lighten of the photos duplicate the layer and set it to screen (repeat until blind). |
What a great idea! Thank you so much. |
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truetifoso
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| seaco wrote: | | Cut out the lad put him on a new layer lighten the background add a little saturation and Gaussian blur, lighten the shadows on the lad... |
Thanks. I'm working on this right now. |
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Kath293
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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Location: AUSTRALIA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:14 am Post subject: |
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I had a similar issue, good thing I found this thread!  |
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