Its been a while, but I need your help.

[mytac]

Dear all.

I know it has been a while since I have been on this site, but I am back, and I need your help.

Can anyone take a look at this image and see if you can do anything with it?

I am working on it, but would really appreciate some of your advice.

Thanks in advance

Ian (Mytac)


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/Margaret.jpg

[0lBaldy]

Not sure what you wanted.. I cropped, used Neat Image at default settings, levels, cloned and healed the neck and face a bit, merged the original back in at about 12%

[Swampy]

I did a little sharpening then went into LAB mode and did curves on Lightness, A/B and C/D channels. Just moved the corner points over 1 box for each color.
Back to RGB and did a touch of noise reduction.

[linzi]

I am not sure if you approve, but here is my attempt at help with your image using CS3 and Neat Image

Processes:

• Image, adjustments, levels
• Select the music stand.. [ it is brighter than the subject being closer to the flash]
• Using Brightness, darken it till it is less bright than the face.
• Select . Inverse.. for the rest of the image.
• Used Image, Adjustments, Shadow/highlight to balance the tones.
• Layer/ duplicate layer then used Neat Image to get rid of muddiness and digital noise, then erased the figure and guitar from that layer to show the sharper layer below using a soft edged brush. Made the opacity of the top layer to about 70%
• Sharpened bottom layer and faded that to 40%
  Cropped.
  Flattened image and saved

If this is too late for you.. sorry I have just seen the message.

[unimatrix001]

I opened the photo and used auto levels in cs4, noiseware and came up with this

[mytac]

wow,, great efforts, thank to you all.. It always amazes me how good you folks are at this. Thanks for the explanations too, it helps me to learn.

Great work,,

[Britec]

Heres mine.

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/u...rgaretcopy.jpg

[Kraellin]

there's only two things you need to do on this one, contrast/brightness where you increase the contrast quite a bit and slightly lower the brightness (due to the increase in contrast) and, a very small amount of noise removal. that's all. it's a five minute job and comes out very nicely.