Help pp'ing an image

Greensquared

Hi guys. This isn't a "great image", but I'd like some suggestions to do something cool and creative with it. At the very least, get rid of the color cast. I was not the official photographer, and the light was yuck, but I'd love to have some neat ideas (and please, pp and repost the actual image if you want to). Thanks a bunch!

MarkR

I'm not seeing an image.

leaforte

I'm not seeing an attached photo.

Greensquared

Should be fixed now.

Tango

Greensquared wrote:

Should be fixed now.

still nope

Greensquared

Dang, you'd think I'd know how to do this!

How about now?

pyry

Greensquared wrote:

Dang, you'd think I'd know how to do this!

How about now?

I can see it if I pull the url from page source, check external links?

That image would be good candidate for some adjustment brushing, I'd try dimming the background, adding some vignetting and see if I could add some faux directionality to the light by deepening the shadows and darkening more around them.

Richard

Greensquared wrote:

Dang, you'd think I'd know how to do this!

How about now?

Emily,

I can see the pic when I copy and paste the image tag, but not in the post. Check that the gallery has external links enabled and is not password protected.

Greensquared

Richard wrote:

Emily,

I can see the pic when I copy and paste the image tag, but not in the post. Check that the gallery has external links enabled and is not password protected.

Ok, please tell me it's there now.

Richard

Greensquared wrote:

Ok, please tell me it's there now.

Tango

you have the raw file right? and WB adjustments/setting didnt help your colorcast?

Greensquared

Richard wrote:

:curtsey About friggin' time, eh? I think I need to practice posting more.

Ric Grupe

Greensquared wrote:

Hi guys. This isn't a "great image", but I'd like some suggestions to do something cool and creative with it. At the very least, get rid of the color cast. I was not the official photographer, and the light was yuck, but I'd love to have some neat ideas (and please, pp and repost the actual image if you want to). Thanks a bunch!

Set white point to highlights in bride's dress...set black point to shadow in mother's dress...add a cooling filter.

Greensquared

All right, how's this?

pathfinder

Emily,

You found the yellow from the hardwood floor!! They are famous for this!

I think the vignette helps, but I would have made it even larger, and tried to cover much of the black frame in the upper right corner or cropped it more... YMMV

Tango

AaronNelson wrote:

you have the raw file right? and WB adjustments/setting didnt help your colorcast?

ok, i assume that WB question was no help to you.
the only other thing i can think of that could be done (in my limited storage of ideas) is:
clone everything out in the upper right frame and upper left frame then re-apply the vignette... and maybe try a white vingette and see if that looks like something of interest.

hope that helped...

Tango

also, you might beable to heal that back corner that runs up the bg

Greensquared

AaronNelson wrote:

ok, i assume that WB question was no help to you.
the only other thing i can think of that could be done (in my limited storage of ideas) is:
clone everything out in the upper right frame and upper left frame then re-apply the vignette... and maybe try a white vingette and see if that looks like something of interest.

hope that helped...

Ok, well, you know when you start playing with an image, and you get so far into it that you have no clue what you did and when, and now you've flattened it and saved it to jpeg? That's where I'm at, so I'm assuming the whole WB thing would mean starting all over with the original NEF. It could happen...but I don't think this shot is worth it.

Tango

that put up a red flag to me.

only time i flatten and convert to jpeg is posting or printing...

always keeping a psd with all layers. a problem i usually have, and not figured out is how to go back into the history (past the buffer) and change a clone or something....

i offered all i can on this one...im not to good with what your asking anyway, i just thought to throw in some ideas...

Greensquared

divamum

HUGE improvement. HUGE. Since it's bridal, on this occasion the white vignette works better for me (usually I don't like them and prefer black), but either version is a vast improvement over the original, in my novice opinion!

leaforte

I like the white vignette. Really cheers it up and seems to add to the season of the composition.

Greensquared

Thanks guys!

troybal

Nice Pic Emily, and I learned about Vignette now too!

pathfinder

I usually don't like white vignette/borders, but in this case it works very nice indeed, Emily! Nicely done!

Tango

good work, i like your adjustments. clone brush is such a good friend!
and i really think the white works well

Miguel Delinquento

Don't like the poinsettias
Hi Emily,
I don't usually hang in this forum, but I was in the mood for a late-night challenge.
I just don't like how the poinsettias are rendered in the shot--they take up too much real estate and the bokeh is too distracting for this shot.
I decided to fix the WB and then desaturate the shot a bit. Those reds can be too intense for most optic nerves. Then a major crop, cloning the upper right, and similar vignetting. About 3 minutes.

M

Greensquared

Hi Miguel,

That's not a bad crop at all, and does draw the interest to the face. With the grain/noise in the iage, I'm not sure it can handle that much cropping. Thanks for the suggestions though. I have desaturated many of the other shots from this day.

Emily