Hill Tribes - Sapa (Vietnam)

[Sylvia]

Hi,

I really like this picture, but the quality is pretty low.


I tried to enhance it with highlight/shadows, unsharp mask (20 60 1), a contrast mask overlay with mask, an increased saturation, a very slight curves adjustment and a crop.



Anybody wants to give a try, you're welcome to play with it.

Comments and critics OK.

Sylvia

[javavibe]

I took a quick crack at your image. Your adjustment was a little contrasty and had a lot of noise in it. I ran a Noise Ninja filter on the blue channel, because that's were most of the noise was. I did a curve layer adjustment on the blue channel as well. I thought the image had a blue cast to it so I pulled it down and did a slight adjustment on the RGB channel as well. I was trying to take the haze out (I think it worked). I also did a Hue/Saturation layer adjustment to warm the image a little. The hue is reduced and the saturation is increased. I see you were trying to lighten the image. I tried to lighten the image too, but I was getting a lot of noise so I didn't. After that I flatten the image and ran an Unsharp mask. I hope you like it.

[mswebb]

I'm liking your edits. Sure they're not going to fix everything and they are going to bring in their own issues but I like that the motion blur is gone and the crop is good too.

I like the edit.