Half image washed out
Jimbo
suggested a family photograph. Unfortunately, it was warm inside and
cold outside so the image ended up with the top half of the photograph
washed out, almost fogged over, while the bottom half is fine. There
are a couple of other minor flaws as well (trees growing out of my
brothers head, another brothers hair messed up) but I have been able
to fix these. Any ideas on how to get the big problem resolved. I am
a newbie who uses PSE for organization and minor adjustments and have
recently upgraded to PSE 7.
Jimbo
Some further detail: I've added a number of adjustment layers to
different parts of the washed out part of the picture which have
improved it significantly. Is this the correct approach or is there
some other strategy I should use. This brings me to another question,
what is the correct strategy for tackling a problem image like this?
Apply general fix to background to optimize it followed by adjustment
layers, etc.
Leo Lichtman
"Jimbo" wrote: (clip) This brings me to another question,
what is the correct strategy for tackling a problem image like this?
Apply general fix to background to optimize it followed by adjustment
layers, etc.
Evidently you are serious, but I am still puzzled about this. You attribute
the unevenness in the image to a difference in indoor/outdoor temperature?
I don't see how this is possible. Please explain. As to making the two
parts look alike, I would make two layers, and work on work on each part
separately--then use an eraser to make them blend so the seam does not show.
Jimbo
Why do you question my seriousness? Was my initial question really
so .... simplistic? If so, it shows how little I know :)
The camera was taken from the very warm indoors to the cold outdoors
and condensation formed on the optics. This cleared over the course
of 15 or 20 minutes so that later images from the same session were
fine but a few of the earlier ones were messed up. It is one of those
earlier ones that I am working on. Thanks for your suggestion.
Catharsis
ability check out Adobe Photoshop instructional video site
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/ and click on Ph
(creative suit 3) and then look for “making lighting corrections” and
the last project in that video (I hope will be what your looking for)
but I don’t know.... It totally blew my mind I don’t know how in the
world it can do “that” but I’ve tried it a few times and it worked for
me...
Elements is (totally, without question) a watered down version of
Photoshop. However, it’s so complicated that I went and bought
Elements to make a step into learning Photoshop, I mean how much would
a book or even a class cost to learn Photoshop and how much is
Elements and a used book to learn how to tweak photos? So I bought
into Elements....
Also it just struck me - that maybe you need to be a member to see the
video (I forgot if I’m logging in automatically). So although it’s
talking about Creative Suite (its still just the Photoshop program
within it)...