Morning all (well, if you're in the UK anyway)

I'll keep it short. The attached photo is not an original scan (unless you want to look at it), its merely resized to suit the site and upload limit. As you can see, it needs a little 'work', lol.

Normally, I wouldn't ask on here before breaking out the wacom and attacking the image myself, but I know when I'm out of my depth and know when to ask for help and that time is now!.

I'm utterly lost as to where to start on the image as IMO its the worst case of double exposure I've ever seen.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated and accepted. Please note however that I don't expect people to do the work for me (I'd never learn anything and I find it rude to expect that).

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance
Andy

p.s. In hind sight, I provided a link to the original on image shack.
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3311/originaljm9.th.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=originaljm9.jpg)

Here's a quickie. Duplicated it, moved the car above on the top layer to line up with the car below on the bottom layer, cropped it and erased the bottom right corner of the top layer to suit.

Many thanks Ziaphra,

Kind of kicking myself at the minute. I thought it would have been a complicated one....guess not, hehe.

Regards
Andy

No problem. ;)

Nice solution, Tanya.

Very well done.

Regards,

Michael

Thank you Michael. :)

yup, good solution, ziaphra. well done! :)

Thanx Craig. :)

Hi all,

I've attempted to replicate Ziaphra's technique on fixing the pic to see how it worked and have attached an image accordingly. Obviously levels etc haven't been sorted yet, but please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance
Andy

Looking good!

yup, looks good, andy :) i'd say you have it.

oh, and welcome to RP :)

Thanks, Ziaphra & Kraellin.

Final question(s) for this one......would you take it any further after adjusting levels a tad or leave it alone.

I only ask because I have a (bad) habit of trying to be a perfectionist and end up doing too much which gets the better of me sometimes. :)

Now where's my photo paper gone....?lol

Regards
Andy

Final question(s) for this one......would you take it any further after adjusting levels a tad or leave it alone.

I only ask because I have a (bad) habit of trying to be a perfectionist and end up doing too much which gets the better of me sometimes.

I suffer from the same obsession!

My solution is to ask my lovely wife what she thinks. If she doesn't point out any issues then I know I'm done. :D

Regards,

Michael

Firstly, thanks for the welcome Kraellin.

Michael, I guess its down to common sense then (you know what women say about men and common sense....or lack of, hehe)

Cheers for the advice though

Regards
Andy

Common sense is neither common, nor does it always make sense.

Common sense says the world is flat.

I don't give it much heed.

I just listen to my wife. :D

Regards,

Michael

I don't give it much heed.

I just listen to my wife.

you are a wise man, sir :)

and to answer your question, andy. if there was no great significance to the car or house or some other element in the image, i'd probably just do a little curves/levels/brightness-contrast to bring the lighting up a bit and any lighting balancing needed.

Hi,

Just a quickie. I thought you may want to see the final result of my first posting (ahh, the nostalgia, lol). Filesize is only 27kb, but thats because I was rushing to reduce the image size and wasn't paying attention (I know, I know, more haste, less speed etc)

Comments welcome as always :)

Regards
Andy

andy, when you lighten, be careful of losing tones and washing things out. the asphalt got a bit bleached out there and some of the tones on the house dont look quite right now either.

what did you use here?

Kraellin, I'd started to notice the road becoming bleached as you put it, once I'd taken a step back from the screen, lol.

My problem is, is that I get so engrossed in what I'm doing, I sometimes forget to actually 'look' at the resulting image regularly.....if that makes any sense, hehe. amateurish, i agree, but a habit I'm hoping to change.

I use PS CS2 and adjusted curves & levels. I think what may have created the mistake was when I adjusted the brightness/contrast (learn by mymistakes, I know, hehe)....

Suffice to say, your advice is most welcome and has been taken on board.

<< humble pie successfully eaten, lol :)

Regards
Andy

trust me, even the pros need to 'walk away' from a piece at times and come back and look again with 'fresh eyes' :)