Turtle

[amgine]

Hello, my first post, been lurking this forum for a while.

I actually like this picture, and was wondering how it could be improved. I deliberately overexposed it (maybe a little too much) to give the impression of a hot day.



thanks

[pkd14u]

Hi,

I hope you don't mind. I took the liberty of working with your photo a little in PhotoShop. What I did was selected the turtle using the pen tool at something like 400%, really selecting for each pixel hoping to not get an odd haze around the turtle. I adjusted levels of the turtle, darkening it. Then I adjusted curves, also darkening. I adjusted curves just a bit on the entire photo. Then I adjusted master saturation just on the turtle.

In the original, the turtle got lost in the background. My goal was to make him pop out a bit more to be the focal point of the photo. If you have photoshop, you could play with this idea however you want.



pkd14u

[amgine]

wow, that looks much better, thanks! i don't know photoshop well enough to do something like that yet, although i'm in the process of learning how.

[jiminyClickit]

amgine,

If you want to go farther, your photo can take a punch, too:



Mostly a bump in contrast, then some brightening. Some loss of detail, probably won't happen in PhotoShop.