Impossible edit?? Someone emailed me the attached photo and asked me to make it into a nice picture. He's also very particular about it being perfect although it does not need to be...

LoisCroft Loc: Jonesborough, Tennessee

Someone emailed me the attached photo and asked me to make it into a nice picture. He's also very particular about it being perfect although it does not need to be large. I'm not having a lot of success with it. I'm attaching the original file. I can lighten it in photoshop, adjust the contrast etc., but is there anything else anyone can think of to do to save this picture for him?

hangman45 Loc: Hueytown Alabama

LoisCroft wrote:

Someone emailed me the attached photo and asked me to make it into a nice picture. He's also very particular about it being perfect although it does not need to be large. I'm not having a lot of success with it. I'm attaching the original file. I can lighten it in photoshop, adjust the contrast etc., but is there anything else anyone can think of to do to save this picture for him?

You have the title pretty accurate it is over 4 stops under exposed bring the light up and it gets super noisy the you get rid of the noise then it looks like a painting instead of a photo

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

"He's very particular about it being perfect" and sends you this to work with?

LoisCroft Loc: Jonesborough, Tennessee

Thanks all, not really worth $15 editing fee!!

Annie_Girl Loc: It's none of your business

nope, honestly you could up the exposure but with the amount this is underexposed you will introduce so much noise to the image it would look just as bad if not worse.

judging by your friends comment that this picture NEEDS to be prefect, I am willing to bet he will be impossible to please. best to be honest and say it's not possible.

barbkelly Loc: Delaware

LoisCroft wrote:

Someone emailed me the attached photo and asked me to make it into a nice picture. He's also very particular about it being perfect although it does not need to be large. I'm not having a lot of success with it. I'm attaching the original file. I can lighten it in photoshop, adjust the contrast etc., but is there anything else anyone can think of to do to save this picture for him?

It's a good thing he doesn't care about the size because what you uploaded is about 4" x 2". Did you try doing some adjustments in ACR? I opened it in ACR (CS6) and was able to clean it up some but it's a really really bad picture.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

Good luck

LoisCroft Loc: Jonesborough, Tennessee

Thanks everyone. He just called and wants it done in the next couple of hours. I think I will take the advice from Annie Girl and tell him it's impossible. Thanks for your help everyone!!

Wendy2 Loc: California

barbkelly wrote:

quote=LoisCroft Someone emailed me the attached p... (show quote)

I think you have done about the best that can be done on this photo.

Wendy2 Loc: California

LoisCroft wrote:

Someone emailed me the attached photo and asked me to make it into a nice picture. He's also very particular about it being perfect although it does not need to be large. I'm not having a lot of success with it. I'm attaching the original file. I can lighten it in photoshop, adjust the contrast etc., but is there anything else anyone can think of to do to save this picture for him?

He may be particular, but you are working with an impossible file. Even if the exposure was good, the photo is not in focus.

Festina Lente Loc: Florida & Missouri

+ Too dark
+ Too out of focus
+ Too little information to work with
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= Exceedingly difficult edit that will dissapoint
+ Perfection
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= Mission Impossible!

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Appears the customer has watched (and believed) too many detective shows on TV where they take a low resolution image from a surveillance camera in a dark parking lot and blow it up crystal clear at poster size where you can read the numbers on a license plate from a mile away. Customers, you gotta love 'em or else you'd want to kill about every other one. This image just doesn't have sufficient size, exposure or focus to work with.

LoisCroft wrote:

Someone emailed me the attached photo and asked me to make it into a nice picture. He's also very particular about it being perfect although it does not need to be large. I'm not having a lot of success with it. I'm attaching the original file. I can lighten it in photoshop, adjust the contrast etc., but is there anything else anyone can think of to do to save this picture for him?

Festina Lente Loc: Florida & Missouri

Elliott Design wrote:

Appears the customer has watched (and believed) too many detective shows on TV where they take a low resolution image from a surveillance camera in a dark parking lot and blow it up crystal clear at poster size where you can read the numbers on a license plate from a mile away. Customers, you gotta love 'em or else you'd want to kill about every other one. This image just doesn't have sufficient size, exposure or focus to work with.

I think that Abby Sciuto on NCIS could take care of this image in a nanosecond.
Just wish I had her software... :roll:

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Festina Lente wrote:

I think that Abby Sciuto on NCIS could take care of this image in a nanosecond.
Just wish I had her software... :roll:

Ah, yes...:D

MattSeven Loc: Scotland UK

I've been caught with stuff like this AND ripped off in the past! It's really not worth the trouble....