Recovering shadow from the ground

[JDzacovsky]

Hello!
Im fresh new member of this community, I found this forum as possibly help with my stuck in editing photo.
I dont know, how delete ugly shadow on bottom ground. Is it possible?
Thank You.

Full size photo (warning, it is really huge):

http://www.jd-foto.cz/temporary/retouch-shadow.jpg

[mper812]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

I was able to successfully remove your shadow. Since the ground is basically a contiguous color and pattern you can use the clone stamp tool in PS set at 100% and carefully clone over the shadow with the bright part of the ground area. I could not upload it but would be glad to email to you if you wish if you provide an email address

[mper812]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

I was able to successfully remove your shadow. Since the ground is basically a contiguous color and pattern you can use the clone stamp tool in PS set at 100% and carefully clone over the shadow with the bright part of the ground area.

[JDzacovsky]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

I was able to successfully remove your shadow. Since the ground is basically a contiguous color and pattern you can use the clone stamp tool in PS set at 100% and carefully clone over the shadow with the bright part of the ground area. I could not upload it but would be glad to email to you if you wish if you provide an email address

Hello, I tried clone stamp, but not good with my hands.
My email is: [email protected]
Or You can upload image to http://ulozto.cz/ with some password.
Thank You!

[JDzacovsky]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

I was able to successfully remove your shadow. Since the ground is basically a contiguous color and pattern you can use the clone stamp tool in PS set at 100% and carefully clone over the shadow with the bright part of the ground area.

Thanks for trying, but your result cant be used.
I tried soft clone stamp, but it is harder because depth of field.
Tried replace color too, but not work for this shadow.
Now I am trying curves, but still not optimal result.

[Repairman]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

This is a colour issue. Adjust the rgb curves through a mask which isolates the shadow. All up, green up, red up and blue down. Fiddle with the sliders to get the mix. I'll send you the curve if you have problems but blending the tone seamlessly along the abutting edge is where the skill lies! Here is a rough viz.

[JDzacovsky]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

This is a colour issue. Adjust the rgb curves through a mask which isolates the shadow. All up, green up, red up and blue down. Fiddle with the sliders to get the mix. I'll send you the curve if you have problems but blending the tone seamlessly along the abutting edge is where the skill lies! Here is a rough viz.

Wow, it looks great.
Can You send me that curves?
Masking will be based on skill, true. Ill use tablet.

[klev]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

This is a colour issue. Adjust the rgb curves through a mask which isolates the shadow. All up, green up, red up and blue down.

I was going to say the same thing, although I'll add that channel mixer can also be very good for this kind of thing. They changed brightness/contrast in CS5 or CS6 to an algorithm that just rescales all channels equally, so that's a third option for a portion of the work.

The color balance will always be a bit different than the brighter areas. It receives a lot less direct light and typically a disproportionate amount from the sky. Atmospheric reflection tends to have a more bluish look as one might expect looking at the sky.

[Cupcake]

Re: Recovering shadow from the ground

Here is another idea.