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Feb 22, 2008 05:27 |  #1

I am looking for help on a few of my photos. I plan on having them printed at some point soon and need help fixing some of the minor flaws. So feel free to save and edit the full size photos. If at all possible post your changes in full size or email me. Any help with these would be very helpful!

*** files range from 3-4 MB ***

1. PRINT01 (external link) - The horizon is lower on the left side. It also has some window reflections along the top left.

2. PRINT02 (external link) - The top 1/3 of the photo the black is kinda grey. Maybe darken it up and remove some of the grain. Also the building on the lower left side has a window reflection.

3. PRINT03 (external link) - Lower middle right side has a reflection.

4. PRINT04 (external link) - A green light to the right of her head might draw attention.

5. PRINT05 (external link) - I posted once before on this one but wanted some more help with it. I would like to keep as much as the background as I can. Make the left side nice and even straight up and down. Along the top and right side the color is slightly darker. BEFORE (external link)

Again any help would be great. I plan on getting these printed in 560x457mm. Also as I am still learning in Photoshop it would be nice to show in steps on how you got what you did.

Thanks!


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Feb 22, 2008 10:43 |  #2

I personally think you have gone a tad overboard in asking someone to do all the work and then tell you how they accomplished it. You fail to mention if you have attempted to do any of this yourself.

Some of the problems that you raise are basic photoshop skills that can be attained through some very basic practice routines.

I am viewing the images on my laptop so perhaps they are worse than they appear but in general the images do not appear as bad you make them out to be.

One of the very early things one should learn to use is the clone tool. This is the tool that would fix you print 04. The fix for the green light that you want removed is a matter of a few seconds. Select your clone tool make your brush size soft edged. Alt click on a point near what you want to remove, this is your source data. Move your brush over the area you want to remove and click until you have removed the offensive light. I recommend creating a new layer before starting this and do your cloning on a blank layer. If you do this make sure to change your sample to either current & below or all layers. This can be found in the tool bar when the clone tool is selected. By doing this on a separate layer you have opportunity to start over if you mess up.

The other tool that works well in this type of thing is the healing brush. It is the same basic concept except that it will try and blend it in as best it can. It can however lead to stray colors being brought in to the blend from near pixels. I think the clone tool is your best option in this image.

Print 05 - you can straighten this image by going to Image-Transform-Rotate. Your image will get a bounding box around it, move your mouse off of the canvas and you will see that it turns into a double ended arrow that is bent. Drag it one way or another until the image is the way you want and hit enter. This is going to leave some transparent pixels at the corners. You can either crop these off or clone them back in. In this print if you attempt to crop it off you lose a very small part of the bottom of the person. I would follow the above procedure for cloning on a separate layer and put some of the bricks back in and then crop the image.

A process that I use when I have parts of an image that are either too dark or too light is the following:
-create a new blank layer above the image
-change this layers blending mode to overlay
-fill the layer with 50% gray. Edit-Fill-select 50% gray. You won't see anything different in the image yet but if you look at your layers palette it should show this layer as a solid gray.
-select a soft edged brush. In your tool bar move your opacity to a relatively low number, somewhere around 20%.
-Paint over the offending parts with white if you want to lighten the area or with black if you want to darken it.

You will find this procedure will help you with some of your problems. You may have to make several attempts at different opacity levels, brush sizes, etc. in order to get the best final result. This will help in darkening up some of the offending areas in the other images you have linked here.

I would seriously suggest that you spend some time with google and find yourself photoshop tutorials. There are literally thousands on the net. They are an excellent way of learning rather than just asking someone to do your work. I can certainly understand your frustration with photoshop as it can be a rather frustrating program when you first start using it. I thought that I would never master it when I first saw it. I would not say that I have mastered it but I am comfortable in it. I got to this point by practice, practice, practice and seeking out tutorials when I could not figure something out.


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Feb 23, 2008 08:32 |  #3

thanks for the comment. yes i have did try and fix them myself using magazine articals and searching online. when I do it does not seem to come out the way I like. Some people just enjoy messing around. If you do not want to dont...

just asking for help, comments, etc. as always learning it for myself would be the best way. I have attempted many times but often find that when i clone the colors dont match or you can notice it has been changed in PS. I will be spending a bit on these so thought id get a few nice ones.


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