Preserved Topic: how to fix a photograph

Hey,

I'm fixing up some photos for a friend, and I have one that in which the flash or something killed the image.



I was wondering if there was any way to clear up the image. I blurred the faces because it belongs to a friend of mine. I played with the curves, but the guy on the right kept getting swallowed up by the darkness. Please help.

if the guy on the right is your *only* problem.. make a nice clean selection around the areas that are getting *too dark* , invert the selection and then apply your curves to the part of the photo outside the guy on the right, thus protecting him... it will have to be a very good selection and dont forget to save the selection so you can use it over

There are other ways also but all take time and practice..

hope that helps a bit

edit: when I say 'clean selection I mean accurate as well as feathered to a degree, you'll have to experiment.. if you dont feather you will more than likely get a hard transition between the modified areas and the un modified areas! heh




[This message has been edited by vogonpoet (edited 02-16-2001).]

hey, thanks vp, that worked really well. I never even thought about that.

Thanks for the help.

no problemo.. its all in the selections!!!! master those and the rest is errrrrrrrrr... its... errrrrrr.. hmmmmm.. well the rest is somewhat easier! heh

~Vp~

hate to tell you this, but there is no way PS can fix those faces.....

eye... under filters>faceshift...

huh... you learn sometin new here every day. Thats what i love about this place. WOW.... geez, and i though i was past the beginner phaze of PS..... i guess maybe i should get a book on it.

Those guys are fucking ugly. That photo wasn't worth the trouble.

Stooges...hehe. That's funny.

That reminds me...I'll have to borrow those tapes from my dad sometime. Last spring I taped a 14 hour 3 Stooges marathon for him and never got the chance to watch it myself.

Oh, and thanks for the selections/curves tips vogonpoet. Those will definitely come in handy for some of my pics too.

Damn, if I'd have known it was the stooges, I woulda kept the pics for myself.

It's amazing what ps can do?