Would love some help..

4labs · February 19, 2005

I want to give this picture to my friend as a gift but I would love to know a way to sharpen it up a bit. For all you editing gurus I'd love some help.. I have PS CS but would try anything. It was shot with a 3.5-4.5 28-105mm Nikor lens 800 ISo F5 ,1/60 @ 105mm. Thnxs in advance

lr1811 · February 19, 2005

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4labs wrote:

I want to give this picture to my friend as a gift but I would love to know a way to sharpen it up a bit. For all you editing gurus I'd love some help.. I have PS CS but would try anything. It was shot with a 3.5-4.5 28-105mm Nikor lens 800 ISo F5 ,1/60 @ 105mm. Thnxs in advance

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4labs · February 19, 2005

I think it should work now

Khaos · February 19, 2005

lr1811 · February 19, 2005

I by no means no what I am doing in Photoshop, but I like to play around anyway...

wxwax · February 20, 2005

4labs, not an expert, but here are some suggestions.

Overall you need to raise the saturation. Also, over most of the baby's face, you need more light. And it looks a little noisy, so you might play with a discreet amount of Guassian blur to sweeten the shot and remove the noise.

First step, IMHO, would be a Curves layer to raise the brightness and contrast. Then mask off the left side of the baby's face, which is fine. Then another Adjustment Layer for Saturation. Then collapse your layers. Make a duplicate copy of the image. Put a mild Gaussian Blur on it, then play with the Opacity slider to see how much you need.

Lots of folks here at better at this than me, and may have better suggestions.

GerryDavid · February 20, 2005

wxwax wrote:

Then collapse your layers. Make a duplicate copy of the image. Put a mild Gaussian Blur on it, then play with the Opacity slider to see how much you need.

Im a fan of leaving the previous layers in tact. Instead of merging/collapsing them, you can select the top layer *not sure if thats important to this*, select all *ctrl a* and ctrl+shift+c, then ctrl v. The ctrl shift c thing copies all the layers as if they were merged. And the ctrl v pastes it as a new layer.

By leaving the layers in tact, and never touching the background layer *duplicate if you have to, ctrl + j*, you dont loose anything, and you can go back and change something if you have to. But this does result in huge files.

4labs · February 20, 2005

wxwax wrote:

4labs, not an expert, but here are some suggestions.

Overall you need to raise the saturation. Also, over most of the baby's face, you need more light. And it looks a little noisy, so you might play with a discreet amount of Guassian blur to sweeten the shot and remove the noise.

First step, IMHO, would be a Curves layer to raise the brightness and contrast. Then mask off the left side of the baby's face, which is fine. Then another Adjustment Layer for Saturation. Then collapse your layers. Make a duplicate copy of the image. Put a mild Gaussian Blur on it, then play with the Opacity slider to see how much you need.

Lots of folks here at better at this than me, and may have better suggestions.

Thnxs for taking the time.. I have no idea how to mask off one side but everything I tried.. Still needs work but I'll get it..

4labs · February 20, 2005

lr1811 wrote:

I by no means no what I am doing in Photoshop, but I like to play around anyway...

Thnxs for teh big improvement... I think the edges are a bit too blurry for me but it is still much better than mine..

4labs · February 20, 2005

This is what I got so far

bfjr · February 20, 2005

That looks better, smooth out the complextion like the one "Khoas" posted, and I think you'll be golden.

Angelo · February 20, 2005

I can't advise on PS but it is a great shot worthy of attention. Good luck with it.

Would love some help..

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