Lucky capture

[sweetpeatoad]

Yay, my first post.

Anyway, I took this picture few weeks ago and fortunately through my search for tutorials on photography, I learned how to work on dark photos. Here's my first attempt in CS3.

Before...


and After!


Here's what I did.

- duplicate layer
- "screen" blend mode
- duplicate layer again
- change opacity to 25%
- Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation ... I played it around until I was satisfied with the result.


Please feel free to post your own enhancement of the photo. I would love to learn and see what you can do.

Thanks!!!

~sweetpeatoad

[windrider86]

Forgive me for saying so but the first one is too dark and te second one is too bright. May I suggest a combination of the two. Seems like a great candidate for a watercolor image as well

[sweetpeatoad]

Thank you for the input! I will sure to try that

[eric_nelson]

Originally Posted by windrider86

Forgive me for saying so but the first one is too dark and te second one is too bright. May I suggest a combination of the two. Seems like a great candidate for a watercolor image as well

Forgive me but I gave the water color a try and it looks good...thanks for sharing

[aspencade]

Like the water colour transformation...can you tell us how you did that.....Paul

[eric_nelson]

Originally Posted by aspencade

Like the water colour transformation...can you tell us how you did that.....Paul

I used the following steps outlined in this tutorial Transform Photo into Watercolor Painting | 10Steps.SG , with a few minor tweaks.....thanks!

[aspencade]

Originally Posted by eric_nelson

I used the following steps outlined in this tutorial Transform Photo into Watercolor Painting | 10Steps.SG , with a few minor tweaks.....thanks!

Thanks eric looks a great tutorial....will try that soon....Paul