I try to have new photos for the restaurant I work at each month. This time we went to the Albuquerque Ballon Fiesta and took some great shots, however the two best ones have a very dark shadow from an observer on my right leg. Tried for six hours yersterday to either decrease it or remove it altogether. Managed to expose the graininess of the photo and nothing more. Suggestions please?
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Mon, November 5, 2007 - 9:22 PMPost it here, maybe someone will have suggestions if they can see your problem. -
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Mon, November 5, 2007 - 10:39 PMDepends on what version of Photoshop you have.
Later versions do well with the Shadow/Highlight function
and Camera Raw has some great color & tonal correction sliders.
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Sat, November 10, 2007 - 8:02 PMMost likely SOL. I had a similar problem, a shadow across a white shirt, up near the shoulder of what would otherwise have been a great head and shoulders portrait, even it if was spontaneous. At the time I was working in PSP not PS, but the ability to deal with the extreme in contrast like that is limited to what was available when you shot the picture. I can remember trying to deal with a similar problem with film and enlarger and dodging and burning and you face the same limitations there. When the contrast between light and dark is great enough, the only thing you can do is make layers, use selections and tweak layers and try to do a merge. Look up HDR, but that technique is for working with multiple images shot at the same time with different exposures. You can get something out of it by working with two copies or two layers of your image, but it will be time consuming.
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Sun, November 11, 2007 - 12:38 PMIt took a week for me to get the nerve to post it...imperfections and all. Is there hope? -
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Mon, November 12, 2007 - 6:41 AMI posted my take on what to do with it. Mainly crop it out. In this case there's so much other clutter in the lower half of the picture that I think just grabbing the great red and blue on top makes a better photo anyway. Plus, the leading foot is almost out of the frame anyway. I like the way photoshop lets you tilt a crop like I did here.
However, check out www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutor...ge.htm for lots of information on how to accomplish your original goal, to get rid of the shadow. You'd create two images, using curves or levels to make one dark and the other light and go from there. But I suspect the time to accomplish it might be better spent doing something else, :-)
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Mon, November 12, 2007 - 12:53 PMThat's too cool! Gives the impression of a lot of movement. Nicely done.
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