Editing a Bad Photo - C and C!

This is a photo I snapped yesterday. Please provide your comments and criticisms on my photoshop adjustments from the original RAW file (bottom images) to the corrected top image. What edits did I do right? What would you have done differently?

I essentially reduced the noise, adjusted the white balance, and gave it some contrast/saturation.

You dont need to post the same image in two subforums...

White balance on the sewing machine is good, but the adjustment has made her skin very unnatural, create a new layer and make adjustments just for the skin then use a layer mask to paint (erase) all the everything but the skin away. Also needs a sharpen or faster shutterspeed next time.

I actually think the sewing machine looked better in the original as far as white balance goes, but her face had a strong orange tint from the incandescent light, which needed correction. Her face looks a little too blue in the corrected version, as does the sewing machine and rest of the image. I'd suggest importing into PS without the WB correct, then adjusting the color balance just for her face, either by selecting it then adjusting using a hue/saturation layer and decreasing saturation of reds and yellows or using a color balance layer, or by doing a global adjustment with either then painting on the layer mask for the adjustment layer so that it just shows on her face. The corrected image might also benefit from a little more contrast.

I liked the original better.

Thanks for the comments. This was a quick, off the cuff image that I snapped while she was taking a brief break from sewing so didn't have enough time to consider everything that is suggested. Thanks for the suggestions!

I may try to play around with this again using some masking techniques...i think it has more potential than what i've done with it to this point.

Just desaturated the blue in the photo, it will make the sewing machine appear less blue.

Turn on "Image Editing OK" and some contributors will take a shot at editing the photo and show you how they might do it.

ChasP505 wrote in post #11452175
I liked the original better.

+1..