tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

CRAP!
I keep hitting the wrong darned button today! :(
Sorry for the double post... *sighs*

Bartman

I should be the resident expert on out-of-focus shots. What I have done with what I think is some success, is, first, never admit to have taken an out-fo-focus picture. Then I play with it in Photoshop (Elements 8). I go to the Artistic Gallery and try everything. One particular shot was taken from the top of a dam, below which a group of a dozen or so folks were preparing to board canoes and head down river. I ended up making it look like a painting and then printing it on real canvas for my printer. For the life of me I can't find that one. But another out-of-focus shot was this one of pumpkins and stuff. You get the idea. Just remember never to admit having taken a picture out of focus.

betsout06 Loc: Pound Ridge, NY

can't you layer in a nice sky from another photo?

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

I don't know how to use Photoshop Elements 7 to well but I was able to ad some blue coloring in the sky.

Most of the correction was done in Capture One 6 Express. Somewhere I saw that you had a Sony camera. I took a wild guess it was a Sony A350 generic and set Capture One to that setting.

With that setting, I played around abit. I added a slight bit of contrast, darkened the barn, removed some of the glare on the shingles, and improved the color of the rest of the things.

The reason I used both programs is because Capture One 6 will only MODIFY what the photo already has. It does not add things that are not already there.

Since the sky was washed out and had no blue, I needed to use a program that will ADD or create things, (the blue). If I knew how to operate P.S. better, the sky could have been taken from another photo and attached within your barn shot.

I'm sure that P.S. will do everything I did from Capture One 6, but find Cap1 overall faster and easier.

*(Unless you want to become a graphics artist and create a photo on your computer.)

This was fun to work on, (practice).

mommy115 Loc: California

:roll: What can I say? How about "my brother did it!" :P

mommy115 Loc: California

sky I could do. It's mostly the focus I can't seem to fix. :oops:

mommy115 Loc: California

You know, splitting it in half so the focus is about the same for the whole photo was brilliant. I hated to not have the siloh in the pic but I really like what you did. Also the color change on the first is really nice.

mommy115 Loc: California

Thanks, definitely improved!

mommy115 Loc: California

Very nice! What filter did you do that with? I've tried filter after filter and came up with nothing as nice as this.

mommy115 Loc: California

Can you explain to me what a High Pass is?

mommy115 Loc: California

Thank you so much everybody for all the great ideas! I've learned a lot of new ideas and appreciate it very much!

mommy115 Loc: California

No worry, it's always nice to hear from you! :D

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

I SO understand about the silo!
I love them, too. It was a challenge to decide where to make the division in this one :) The silo could probably use a little more contrast now that I'm looking at it here, but...

Glad you liked the options. :)

It was a learning experience for me too, so thank you for that!

sparky192 Loc: Manitoba, Canada

I think you need to try using "Focusine" it works wonders on out of focus pix.
I have the recipe if you want to mix a batch...

sparky192 Loc: Manitoba, Canada

mommy does that bird bite?