How about a little Photoshop play?

[nickybegood1998]

How would you all suggest I make this little flower pop with color? Nothing I do seems to make a difference. Thanks.

Karman

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i6/nickybegood1998/test_2824.jpg

[TeeJay]

I'm affraid your starting point isn't ideal - the picture/flower itself doesn't have a great depth of colour that can be drawn out. It also seems a little on the soft side. If you have a sharper version, that in itself will help.

[ayotnoms]

As the previous poster said, the image itself has some issues but be that as it may, there are ways to punch the color up.

I like this method I read in a book on color channels.

Convert image to LAB.
Select the "a" channel
Image-Apply Image-Blend Mode:Overlay (experiment with % blending)
Select the "b" channel
Image-Apply Image-Blend Mode:Overlay (experiment with % blending)
Convert back to RGB

Again, experiment until you get the color rendition you're happy with.

BTW, here the 2 minute whirl I took with your image. :) :)
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[ssim]

It would be nicer to be working off of the original. There are really allot of different options that would be only limited by ones imagination. What I did to the attached image:

Oval selection around flwr and feathered by 50 pixels. Moved this to its own layer.

Did a selection of the flower itself and feathered by two pixels and then adjusted levels to taste.

Moved back to the original layer and desaturated and adjusted levels to darken it quite a bit.

Cropped the image.

I'm not a big fan of selective coloring but in this image I wanted to get rid of the noise in the background to try and bring the flower to the attention of focus.

Again, it is hard to work on an image of this size. If I had the original you could probably get rid of the leaf on the left by cropping tighter to the flower.

This is one of those images that everyone will have a different take on what looks right to them. There really isn't a right or a wrong answer on this. It is totally subjective in the eye of the beholder.

[tim]

The photo doesn't look like it's properly focused, and it looks oversharpened. If your subject is the flower you also need to get closer. Photoshop can improve photos sometimes, but you need to start with good source material.

[D. Craig Flory]

Here is my rendition of the flower ...

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/DC47/test_2824Enhanced.jpg

D. Craig Flory PPA Certified, Cr.Photog., ASP
floryphotog@mindspring.com

[kitacanon]

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4264/flr2c2ct3.jpg