Need a little help witht he sky
Oct 29, 2012 08:46:17 #
A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Oct 29, 2012 11:03:19 #
Triplets wrote:
A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Just new to this myself, but had a go.
See if this is better!
Oct 29, 2012 11:06:29 #
robbygb wrote:
Just new to this myself, but had a go.
See if this is better!
Triplets wrote:
A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Just new to this myself, but had a go.
See if this is better!
Better...thanks for the effort.
Oct 29, 2012 11:12:50 #
Triplets wrote:
Better...thanks for the effort.
robbygb wrote:
Just new to this myself, but had a go.
See if this is better!
Triplets wrote:
A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Just new to this myself, but had a go.
See if this is better!
Better...thanks for the effort.
Try this link, it's free and easy to use and you can choose from different skies.
www.smartphotoeditor.com/download/
Oct 29, 2012 11:15:36 #
Oct 29, 2012 17:27:55 #
Hows this?
Masked eveyrthing except for the sky.
Adjusted the brightness and contrast. (There are large areas of the sky burned out with no info to recover. So other then pasting in another sky no much can be done.)
Used color balance to ad some blue to the mids.
Inverted previous selection and adjusted levels.
Lightened faces by dodging the mids a bit.
Looks like I din't do a great job of masking the trees between the subjects heads. I'd just get rid of them, distracting.
Masked eveyrthing except for the sky.
Adjusted the brightness and contrast. (There are large areas of the sky burned out with no info to recover. So other then pasting in another sky no much can be done.)
Used color balance to ad some blue to the mids.
Inverted previous selection and adjusted levels.
Lightened faces by dodging the mids a bit.
Looks like I din't do a great job of masking the trees between the subjects heads. I'd just get rid of them, distracting.
CPG studios edit
Oct 29, 2012 18:29:31 #
Oct 29, 2012 22:27:31 #
thomew wrote:
Hows this? br Masked eveyrthing except for the sky... (show quote)
Thanks Tom...better than anything I could do.
Oct 30, 2012 05:58:39 #
Triplets wrote:
Can't do much with that sky with Picasa. Best to use photoshop or a freebie such as Paint.net and cut and paste onto a better picture of a sky with clouds e.g.A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Oct 30, 2012 08:57:45 #
johnske wrote:
Triplets wrote:
Can't do much with that sky with Picasa. Best to use photoshop or a freebie such as Paint.net and cut and paste onto a better picture of a sky with clouds e.g.A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Very nice John...thank you.
Oct 30, 2012 09:19:23 #
Using CS5, I did a Color Select of the different colors of the sky. This gave me a selection of the sky, but it also makes selections in the actual picture. I removed the selections that I didn't want in the picture and it gave me a selection of the colors in the sky only. I then made brightness and contrast adjustments. While the sky was selected, I made a neutral density filter of the sky only. I also used an unsharp mask to sharpen the picture and a few other tweaks. It's the best I could do.
Oct 30, 2012 09:37:41 #
rgs65 wrote:
Using CS5, I did a Color Select of the different c... (show quote)
Thanks rgs65...and thanks to everyone who answered the call for assistance. Much appreciated.
Oct 30, 2012 10:04:47 #
While Picasa is a pretty good editor for most touchups, it appears as if you are about ready for a more sophisticated program. Paint.net and GIMP are both freeware programs, have plenty of built-in features and accept readily available (and free) plug-ins to expand their capabilities. Also, there are plenty of tutorials for both on the net to help the learning curve.
You received plenty of great help on this picture (Yay UHH team!) but you may have noticed most of the fixes were done with something other than Picasa.
Just a thought.
You received plenty of great help on this picture (Yay UHH team!) but you may have noticed most of the fixes were done with something other than Picasa.
Just a thought.
Oct 30, 2012 10:06:14 #
Oct 30, 2012 10:45:50 #
Triplets wrote:
A friend took this photo of me and my son after one of his games. I like the picture, but I think the sky is blown out. All I have is the free Picasa for PP and I wasn't able to do anything with it.
Here's my take on 3 different pics I played with and added a different sky...less than 10 seconds apiece... here's a link to a video I did on how I do it if you get Elements...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9HXPM_ZTjM
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