St Pauls' Cathedral with Rainbow

vangogh

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I have a query with a pic I took last month,, that I want to "rescue" if poss.

It was taken from the Tate Modern Gallery, shooting from their balcony across the Thames to St Paul's Cathedral. My Godson suddenly pointed out that there was a rainbow, so I rushed to get the camera out & we dashed out to get this. However conditions were grey & the rainbow was already fading. I've fiddled with the curves & levels, but not sure of I can do anything mre to it. Any suggestions please.

The original


After some tinkering



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gluwater

You would probably want to post this in the Photoshop Shenanigans Forum instead of here to get help on this. The subject of rainbows was just mentioned in the LAB color discussion. See pathfinders thread [thread=29980]here[/thread]. Hope that helps.

vangogh

St Pauls' Cathedral with Rainbow
I posted this in the worng forum. I hope someone here can help with this. Thanks


I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I have a query with a pic I took last month,, that I want to "rescue" if poss.

It was taken from the Tate Modern Gallery, shooting from their balcony across the Thames to St Paul's Cathedral. My Godson suddenly pointed out that there was a rainbow, so I rushed to get the camera out & we dashed out to get this. However conditions were grey & the rainbow was already fading. I've fiddled with the curves & levels, but not sure of I can do anything mre to it. Any suggestions please.

The original


After some tinkering



Thanks

adrian_k

this is my 2minute effort.
first was add a level layer and adjust the RGB highlight slider - that makes the whole thing, particularly the buildings more contrasty.

then I used wand (W) and selected the sky (tol=32) this was simple as there's quite a demarkation between sky & building
ctrl+j to copy selection to a new layer and adjusted the opacity.

I didn't bother with Lab although that'd give better results.
and if I was going to spend time on it - i'd be more carefull with the mask.

after comparing your after with mine the buildings are very similar - if you just concentrate on masking the sky because I think that's what you want to bring out.
hth

vangogh wrote:

I posted this in the worng forum. I hope someone here can help with this. Thanks


I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I have a query with a pic I took last month,, that I want to "rescue" if poss.

After some tinkering



Thanks

Andyman

Here's my try. Wish I had a larger version to work with.

marcgemis

Opened in PS, duplicated background layer, set to overlay. Added Hue/Saturation layer. Increased saturation, added mask to that saturation layer, such that it is only increased on rainbow and the top of the buildings.