His gf is very talented designer and did take this shot with a point and shoot.
Photography is not here thing. But still she loves him and she has eyes.
I do not even think of posting my first tries on this image.
Perhaps you have idea's on this one.
a bad orginal, though talking image
Highlights,
Please give us some goals you would like to have for the image.
Personally I can see that it needs a pass with smart sharpen, it needs a skin correction which could be done in Curvemeister with a Skin Mask and a mid-tone skin pin, The foreground road is completely blown out with no details; it will need to be cloned back into the image. the overall color balance needs a bit of a tweak...
What things are you looking to improve and then we'll have a bash at it...
Greg
Please give us some goals you would like to have for the image.
Personally I can see that it needs a pass with smart sharpen, it needs a skin correction which could be done in Curvemeister with a Skin Mask and a mid-tone skin pin, The foreground road is completely blown out with no details; it will need to be cloned back into the image. the overall color balance needs a bit of a tweak...
What things are you looking to improve and then we'll have a bash at it...
Greg
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Headlights,
Here is my version of the image...
In shot 1: I show the image with the road cloned into a separate layer. I copied a section of the road and pasted it into a new layer. I used the "Skew" command to stretch the copied area out over the blown area and then set the layer opacity to 65%. I then used a eraser tool with a soft brush to erase out the areas of the copied layer that covered the green spots near the middle.
In Shot 2: I flattened the layers and opened the image in Curvemeister to do a RGB correction using the highlights in the trees I found a spot that I thought should be white and corrected the highlights to that spot. I picked a mid-tone spot and corrected in RGB to make that neutral. I picked a spot in the hairline to check the shadows and found the hair to be blue. I corrected the hairline spot to be in the skin tone range but very dark so that the man does not have blue hair.
In Shot 3: I applied smart sharpen as shown with the settings you see in the screen shot.
Shot 4 is where I left the image for now.
Greg
Here is my version of the image...
In shot 1: I show the image with the road cloned into a separate layer. I copied a section of the road and pasted it into a new layer. I used the "Skew" command to stretch the copied area out over the blown area and then set the layer opacity to 65%. I then used a eraser tool with a soft brush to erase out the areas of the copied layer that covered the green spots near the middle.
In Shot 2: I flattened the layers and opened the image in Curvemeister to do a RGB correction using the highlights in the trees I found a spot that I thought should be white and corrected the highlights to that spot. I picked a mid-tone spot and corrected in RGB to make that neutral. I picked a spot in the hairline to check the shadows and found the hair to be blue. I corrected the hairline spot to be in the skin tone range but very dark so that the man does not have blue hair.
In Shot 3: I applied smart sharpen as shown with the settings you see in the screen shot.
Shot 4 is where I left the image for now.
Greg
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