Registered: December 2002 Location: Australia users gallery
Wow! This one is badly under-exposed. I looked at the color channels.
Green was too dark and blue was dark and grainy.
I tried three different methods of replacing damaged
channels with good channels. Then I fiddled with channel mixer.
These methods work wonders in Photoshop Restoration books.
But when I try them they don’t make a dramatic improvement.
I thought, “That’s enough nonsense” I’ll try this the simple way.
I duped the original and changed the blend mode to screen to lighten.
Then I selected red in Hue & Sat. and reduced intensity.
This helped, but some red remained and the other colors were washed out.
The only way I could think of to improve the look of this photo
was to make separate selections and re-color.
I selected the suit and used Hue & Sat. to color it brown.
Same procedure for the dress, shirt and background etc.
It was tough going bringing the man’s face out of the shadows.
I selectively sharpened the eyes and removed glass reflections.
Registered: October 2004 Location: Largo, Fl Posts: 282
2/14/2005 1:33pm
Great skin tones! Also the suit looks very good. Great job.
Matt Roberts Junior Member
Registered: December 2002 Location: Australia
2/14/2005 11:20pm
Swampy - Put a little more yellow into the man's skin. Hope it looks ok.
The eyes looked a little dull. So I zoomed in and lightened the eye whites
before sharpening.
Margaret - After trying to remove the color cast the suit looked an
awful color. I just had to do something about it.
Matt
ckc108 Junior Member
Registered: August 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 1
2/19/2005 12:05am
Matt,
I like the rosy pink colour on the lady's face. How long did you spend on doing the selection? I can imagine the pain of doing such detailed selection. Great job!
ckc108
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Matt Roberts Junior Member
Registered: December 2002 Location: Australia
2/19/2005 4:32am
ckc108 – You asked me how long I spent on
my detailed selection of the ladies face.
The answer is about 10 seconds.
I used the Quickmask brush – size 50 – and painted over the darker areas on her face. This gave me a soft edged selection.
Then came Levels and I lightened her face with the mid-tone slider.
If any area I lightened looked a little pale I used levels to add a little color.
Used the same method to lighten and even the man’s skin tone.
Matt
Neve Senior Member
Registered: July 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 836
2/19/2005 8:36pm
Amazing Matt!
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Pauline
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