Need help with my son's photo

[kumar30006]

I have taken this shot using my Camera. I am totally new to the CS4 world.

If you can help me change look of this and tell me what you have done to get there. I would really appreciate your help.

I am amazed by the friendliness of this group members and their efforts to help fellow humans. Hats off to you folks.

RAW image using Canon 5D Mark II
http://www.edigitallab.com/son.zip

I have not spend time setting up lighting - bear with the quality:-)

[Gary]

Originally Posted by kumar30006

I have taken this shot using my Camera. I am totally new to the CS4 world.If you can help me change look of this and tell me what you have done to get there. I would really appreciate your help.
I am amazed by the friendliness of this group members and their efforts to help fellow humans. Hats off to you folks.
RAW image using Canon 5D Mark II
http://www.edigitallab.com/son.zip
I have not spend time setting up lighting - bear with the quality:-)

Opened in ACR, adjusted for lighting, color casts and then into CS4 where I cropped it, used selective curves in LAB for saturation & contrast, sharpened in the L channel and copied back into RGB and added a darker vignette.

[kumar30006]

big thank you

[Tareq]

Here is my attempt.

[TommyO]

Kumar3006,
As Gary and Tareq have shown, most of the time you can correct your images rather quickly in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). It can even be a good first step in a restoration project. Try and get used to using Adobe Bridge as your file manager. This makes the step to ACR rather natural. Unless you are planning to do quite a bit more retouching or modifications to an image, it's a natural first (and sometimes final) step to correcting many of the issues our images may suffer. You can also get quite a bit more benefit by shooting RAW (as you have). Have fun and play with ACR for a while until you get comfortable with it.