Improve Cute pic of Bride and daughter...

[PhotoB]

I love this pic I took at a friends wedding in June... but how do I improve it?

[Cassidy]

Quick Idea, the brick wall seems to dominate, so I adjusted levels and slightly gaussian blurred the wall - 10 sec fix. Need to ensure the cuteness and innocence of the pic remain

[creeduk]

Straightened the image and cropped tighter with a small levels adjustment. The image looks good not much needs to be changed

[DannyAustin]

Agree with Cas thats a great idea.
I wouldnt do too much to this picture at all its a great composition, and retouching too heavily may spoil it. Super job!

[Cassidy]

the wall provides great contrast when the levels are set, so then blurring it, defers the foreground but still provides a great contrast - go figure

[freddieanne]

PhotoB,

Love your picture too!

A different take - You might want to check out this link/tutorial, it came to mind when I saw your pic.

www.photoshopuser.com/how/

Have fun,

Annabel

[Cyber Cat]

I was wondering why no one tried to remove that water drain thingy on the daughter’s side of the image.

[creeduk]

Or you could use a very slight blur and instead of the often done deasturate, use a color, I sued a tone of blue and orange to give a cool and warm look. Once masked you can play with whatever suits. I also removed the pipe from the wall this time.

LOL I did not see the post above as I was busy editing so just funny I removed what was mentioned

[PhotoB]

Wow!! Thanks for all the suggestions! And you know, I never even saw the pipe in the wall.

[Kraellin]

i always ask myself, 'what's the real picture i want in this image?'. and for me, in this picture, it was pretty obvious. so, i cropped for it.

i then doubled the size.

i then sharpened and used the digital cameral noise cleanup tool.

i then ran Fast Fix on it for a bit more contrast and a slight increase on saturation.

then i framed it.

Craig

[PhotoB]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

i then sharpened and used the digital cameral noise cleanup tool.

I never knew there was such a thing... in that in photoshop?

[Kraellin]

i've no idea. i'm using paint shop pro 9.

Craig

[mister_phillie]

You could try either of these?

The first is a basic tidy up: colour balance, reduce saturation of wall, straighten horizon, sharpen, recolour dresses

The second is based on the first, but applies a glamour look (Diffuse glow, then two increasingly blurred Overlay layers)

Cheers,

[nebgranny]

At the expense of sounding like an idiot , I wish to say that I feel it so important to keep the memories of a picture and the settings around them as actual as possible. So glad people kept the wall , it was there , it was part of the day!!

To do some work like removal of the spout and a little repair of some of the stones to me are good. To add some blur and a bright mood for glamor is so cool. I just find some restoration of places keeping photo's real is the way to go!!

I am so novice to all of this but I for some reason believe in keeping things actual. Silly I guess
sometimes one may not be able to do so!!
Neb

[Kraellin]

neb,

cool.

Craig