Can this photo be saved?

winger

ok so I promise someday I really will learn how to use photoshop (I anticpating beginning this summer) but in the mean time help me look like an awesome girlfriend!!!

My boyfriend took this photo of the family in hawaii....and he tried to use the little on camera flash....but it just wasnt enough.
Is there anyway to lighten up the people?


here is the link so you can get the big one to play with....
http://winger.smugmug.com/gallery/1366228
THANKS!!!

rainforest1155

I did just a quick shadow/highlight (amount of shadow: 55) correction in LAB:
[Richards is much better anyways - removed mine]

Hope this helps,
Sebastian

PS: Here are two tutorials on how to use the shadow/highlight tool of PS: by Rutt and by David.

Richard

How's this?



Just some simple lab curves with the sky masked out. The people can be made a lot brighter, but it started looking fake to me. Don't really know how much you want to push it.

Cheers,

winger

rsinmadrid wrote:

How's this?



Just some simple lab curves with the sky masked out. The people can be made a lot brighter, but it started looking fake to me. Don't really know how much you want to push it.

Cheers,

yeah that is the way I sort of went with it......

I think his level of tolerance is much higher than mine......I am like the noise...the noise and he is totally excited right now.
Thanks!

Cason

Here my stab at it.

Stan

Very quickly with shaddow highlight


Stan