My first enhancement

[kelleyaynn]

I took some pictures of ornaments on our Christmas tree, and of course they were very yellow due to the low lighting. I'm amazed at the improvements I was able to make (which I'm sure is old hat to so many of you). :rolleyes:

3414 old pic

3415 retouched pic

[RMcNutt]

Very nicely done!


rlm :)

[ladybug]

That is a great improvement ,great job.

[jhzich]

What a GREAT job--makes you glad to have a good photo-editting program I'll bet. Imagine now what you can do with all those other photos you have where there's the difference between what your mind saw and what your camera saw...

Something else you might take a look at are the various scene modes in your camera. They are designed to deal with such things as lighting temperature (indoor vs outdoor for example) and give you a better chance of having the camera's image closer to your mind's image. Then again, there's always PSE...

[frank abramonte]

kelleyaynn, why not share how you did this so others can keep a copy of the technique for future reference.
Very well done.

[Shirley1md]

Beautiful job! I would love to know your technique!

[vawitt]

Wow - big difference!

(Pretty ornament, too!)

[jhzich]

Didn't realize the situation until I took a few minutes to try what I thought would be a simple hue/saturation exercise (in anticipation on learning what the author's actual technique was). After struggling for a bit and unable to get my "after" to look like the author's "after", I saw it... the before and after are TWO DIFFERENT PHOTOGRAPHS. Now, that doesn't mean that anything sneaky was going on, but it does make you want to see 1) the real before and after images, and 2) the technique(s) that were used. After all, this is about learning and sharing what one has learned.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1HNRFAgnDPEDJqAKbAQZB9pSjYY00_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1HNRFAgnDPEDJqAKbAQZB9pSjYY00)


Beautiful job! I would love to know your technique!

[Aussie Nan]

Good pick up Jon.

I think it's all very funny really, and either an honest mistake, or else a test to see how observant we are. ;)

[GaryK]

Regardless of intent, still a great exercise in colour correction/enhancement.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1bH8BF8gX2zFQvOlbx4VR9qBhzhwY90_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1bH8BF8gX2zFQvOlbx4VR9qBhzhwY90)

Only took a couple of minutes with it, so some improvements could still be made with more time invested.

[jhzich]

Hence the request for the original author to comment on what techniques they used.

This is a request I see frequently when someone posts an image to show what they have accomplished...it should be considered "standard procedure" to explain, at least major points, the techniques used when posting an image in the forum thread.

Regardless of intent, still a great exercise in colour correction/enhancement.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1bH8BF8gX2zFQvOlbx4VR9qBhzhwY90_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1bH8BF8gX2zFQvOlbx4VR9qBhzhwY90)

Only took a couple of minutes with it, so some improvements could still be made with more time invested.

[GaryK]

Jon

I was kind of waiting for the OP to comment first, but, no matter.:rolleyes:
I had 3 adj layers
first (closest to photo) hue/sat.. mostly played with the greens and red saturation but did adjust blue and magenta and yellow as well.
Above that a greeen photo filter and masked the ball part fo preserve the gold. (maybe could have switched with hue/sat position)
Then above that contrast/brightness to punch it up a bit.

Im not even sure how it looks on a decent monitor..using the old laptop right now and that has just OK, uncalibrated, colour ..so I was just trying to match the OP's post colours.:)

[jhzich]

Thanks--that's almost exactly what I had done.

Jon

I was kind of waiting for the OP to comment first, but, no matter.:rolleyes:
I had 3 adj layers
first (closest to photo) hue/sat.. mostly played with the greens and red saturation but did adjust blue and magenta and yellow as well.
Above that a greeen photo filter and masked the ball part fo preserve the gold. (maybe could have switched with hue/sat position)
Then above that contrast/brightness to punch it up a bit.

Im not even sure how it looks on a decent monitor..using the old laptop right now and that has just OK, uncalibrated, colour ..so I was just trying to match the OP's post colours.:)